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Netdata Blog: Monitoring & Observability Insights on Netdata
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Netdata Blog: Monitoring & Observability Insights on Netdata is the company blog at netdata.cloud, writing about systems and data. Since 2020, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Netdata: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Transformed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the Netdata blog and site for its real-time monitoring tool, its pricing and community, and posts on metric correlation and why Netdata is free. The comments point to these pages rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Real-time observability with per-second metrics, logs and traces, ML anomaly detection, and AI troubleshooting. Open source, #1 on GitHub. Cut MTTR by 80%.
Most-linked posts?
- Netdata: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Transformed6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-02-19
- /pricing/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-03
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-10
- Why Netdata Is Free2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-06
- Netdata vs. Prometheus: A 2025 Performance Analysis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-29
- Infrastructure Monitoring / Troubleshooting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-09
What Hacker News says?
https://www.netdata.cloud manages to pack quite a lot into one experience.
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on “Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?”Submitted Netdata Source Plugin for Grafana: Enhanced high-fidelity monitoring data source as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFriends don't let friends configure linux from a web UI. It's messy, built off of assumptions, and is ripe for exploitation. Plus, if all you ever use is a web UI, how are you supposed to troubleshoot or fix the machine when said web UI stops working? If you're looking for pretty, single host, read-only monitoring dashboards though, checkout Netdata: https://www.netdata.cloud/
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on “Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers”Submitted Kubernetes CPU allocation and throttling demystified as a story · 12 points
HN discussionNetdata | REMOTE (Global) | Senior Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer, Full Time | https://netdata.cloud/ Netdata is the easiest way to start monitoring and troubleshooting quickly with no advanced planning or preparation. It’s minutes, not weeks, from installation to real-time data visualization that can help you rapidly identify and address anomalies. Whether you’re a solo developer or part of an SRE team of dozen…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”Submitted Netdata vs. Prometheus: A 2025 Performance Analysis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNetdata doesn't have any paid service at the moment, event the Cloud service is free. There are plans in the future for some paid plan but it won't remove features, it is more on having longer retention on metadata, role based access, support, etc. You can find more details here https://www.netdata.cloud/pricing/
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Open Source Alternative To”Submitted Monitor the a Go Ethereum (Geth) node in under 5 minutes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGood to hear metrics correlation might be useful to you, just as background you can get more info here: https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/netdata-cloud-metric-correlat... At the moment it's based on a short window of data so the focus is more for short term changes around an area of interest you have already found. Longer term it would be cool to be able to use an anomaly score on the metrics themselves (or if a lot of…
Comment linking /blog/netdata-cloud-metric-correlations/
on “Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform”Submitted Why Netdata Is Free as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHave you tried netdata? https://www.netdata.cloud/ I've switched to this for all hosted/decentralized monitoring.
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on “Munin Website Redesigned”Submitted Netdata versus Datadog: root cause analysis with metric correlations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs an alternative, I use the free community-edition netdata -- love it at my job, and it works right out of the box on my personal windows and linux machines. https://www.netdata.cloud/pricing/ (don't let the `.cloud` scare you off, they have a 100% free and functional local-only install) It's insanely powerful and with some configuration can persist the metrics in a local database.
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows”Submitted High-cardinality metrics at scale: why the standard playbook is wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.netdata.cloud/
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on “Ask HN: Hosting on Digital Ocean, any advice for monitoring and deployments?”Submitted Netdata: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Transformed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDocker-compose, not k8s. Set up a cron job to run a script to update the OS, pull all your containers and reboot after hours once a week or once a day. Make sure the script specifies non interactive. Set up alerting for low disk space, see https://netdata.cloud or use your own tool. Set up firewall. Use SSL if you can, wireguard if you can't. Even internal networks should use http. I have something very similar set…
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on “Ask HN: Reducing the maintenance surface area of hosting a small internal app”Submitted Native Windows Agent: The Best Way to Monitor Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCool! - we always looking for feedback, feel free to hop into our discord, forum, or GH discussions (links here: https://www.netdata.cloud/community/ ) to leave any feedback or ask any questions if you run into any issues. (cheers for the mention here too - always nice to try get some feedback and discussion going on HN as its so candid :0 )
Comment linking /community/
on “Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?”Submitted Netdata vs. Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana and Instana as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe Netdata will work for you. Very happy user. https://www.netdata.cloud/ https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/#apm-appli... Hosted / Selfhosted Demo instance: https://london.my-netdata.io/
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on “Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on DataDog?”Submitted ML Assisted Troubleshooting – Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Netdata as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently tried a bit self-hosted https://www.netdata.cloud , looks very good but I wonder why it's not more popular? It does have 64k stars on GitHub[0], but I had to google for months to find them. [0]: https://github.com/netdata/netdata
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on “Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus and Grafana”Submitted Bringing rich and real-time infrastructure monitoring to Netdata Cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can learn how Netdata is free by checking out this blog post that the CEO of Netdata wrote: https://www.netdata.cloud/blog/why-netdata-is-free/
Comment linking /blog/why-netdata-is-free/
on “Why Netdata Is Free”Submitted Netdata vs. Prometheus: A 2025 Performance Analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi Everyone! We’re thrilled to announce the release of our Netdata Paid Subscriptions as of Wednesday, 22nd of February 2023. But for those who would not yet want to upgrade, fear not, as Netdata offers the Community plan which will remain free, forever. The new paid subscriptions provide additional features and capabilities for users and businesses that need tighter and customizable integration of the monitoring so…
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Netdata Paid Subscriptions”Submitted Netdata: 20% discount on all annual plans Promo code BF20241Y as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Collection Strategies for Infrastructure Monitoring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure Monitoring / Troubleshooting as a story · 1 points
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