The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Monit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Monit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Monit yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Netdata
Posts with mentions or reviews of Netdata.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-25.
- 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery
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CPU & Memory Monitoring 101: How to Check, Analyze, and Optimize System Performance
Netdata: Provides beautiful, real-time dashboards for visualizing system metrics ( https://www.netdata.cloud ).
- Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)
- Netdata: 20% discount on all annual plans Promo code BF20241Y
- Netdata 2.0 Released
- Ask HN: Hosting on Digital Ocean, any advice for monitoring and deployments?
- Netdata is shipping their new dashboard as closed source blobs
- Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
netdata.cloud — Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub!
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The Hidden Costs of Monitoring
Netdata is designed with efficiency, scalability, and flexibility in mind, aiming to address most of the challenges associated with both open-source tools and commercial SaaS offerings.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Monit and Netdata you can also consider the following projects:
Munin - Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.