Netdata
The open-source observability platform everyone needs (by netdata)
cadvisor
Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. (by google)

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Netdata | cadvisor | |
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123 | 47 | |
73,461 | 17,547 | |
1.0% | 1.1% | |
10.0 | 7.8 | |
2 days ago | 21 days ago | |
C | Go | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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.
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 2024-11-06.
- 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.
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Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's...
Monitoring = netdata on each RPi https://www.netdata.cloud/ binded to the vpn interface being scraped into a prometeus thaons https://thanos.io/ setup with grafana to give management the Green all is good screens (very important).
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netdata is suddenly reporting 1hour_ecc_memory_correctable like every day
We run netdata to have a bit of insight into whats happening on the 10+ dedicated servers in Falkenstein. So far we have seen a 1hour_ecc_memory_correctable about once a month. Suddenly we get 1hour_ecc_memory_correctable like every day from different servers. Any ideas why that could be happening?
- Netdata v1.43.0 – with systemd-journal log integration
cadvisor
Posts with mentions or reviews of cadvisor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-24.
- Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
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How to Monitor Network Bandwidth of Docker Containers
cAdvisor is a container monitoring tool that provides detailed metrics about Docker containers, including network usage.
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Monitoring with cAdvisor, Prometheus and Grafana on Docker
Find more details here
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List of your reverse proxied services
cAdvisor
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Need Recommendation: btop like web page for docker
https://github.com/google/cadvisor exports Prometheus metrics, but also offers a simple web-ui for container metrics.
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Exporters running, just not in prometheus?
version: '3' volumes: prometheus-data: driver: local grafana-data: driver: local services: prometheus: image: prom/prometheus:latest container_name: prometheus ports: - "9090:9090" volumes: - /etc/prometheus:/etc/prometheus - prometheus-data:/prometheus restart: unless-stopped command: - "--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml" grafana: image: grafana/grafana:latest container_name: grafana ports: - "3000:3000" volumes: - grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana restart: unless-stopped node_exporter: image: quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter:latest container_name: node_exporter command: - '--path.rootfs=/host' pid: host restart: unless-stopped volumes: - '/:/host:ro,rslave' cadvisor: # TODO: latest tag is not updated, check latest release https://github.com/google/cadvisor/releases image: gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor-arm:v0.47.0 container_name: cadvisor ports: - "8080:8080" network_mode: host volumes: - /:/rootfs:ro - /var/run:/var/run:ro - /sys:/sys:ro - /var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro - /dev/disk/:/dev/disk:ro privileged: true restart: unless-stopped depends_on: - redis redis: image: redis:latest container_name: redis ports: - "6379:6379"
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Prometheus JMX Exporter for Java17
For CPU and memory metrics, you can use cAdvisor to collect container level data.
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Docker Monitoring Solution?
Perhaps https://github.com/google/cadvisor + prometheus (or influx or whatever else) + grafana?
- How to monitor container exit codes?
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Building a realtime performance monitoring system with Kafka and Go
We could have used a much more focussed tool like Prometheus or Cadvisor to gather system stats, but that is not the main objective of this article.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Netdata and cadvisor you can also consider the following projects:
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
node_exporter - Exporter for machine metrics
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Munin - Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
docker-socket-proxy - Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts
Performance Co-Pilot - Performance Co-Pilot
Healthchecks - Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django
Nagios - Nagios Core
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers
Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
www.nutrient.io
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