A managed Netdata alternative for your servers
Keep server and container visibility while Fivenines hosts your metric history. Connect monitoring to external uptime checks, incident workflows and public status pages.
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Current tool
Netdata
Alternative
Fivenines
Platform coverage
Core monitoring in one account
Netdata vs Fivenines: where do your metrics live?
Netdata combines an open-source agent with local dashboards and optional Netdata Cloud access. Its Agents and Parents store the metrics on your infrastructure; the Cloud provides a central view. It already covers host metrics, containers, services and Proxmox, so those capabilities alone are not a reason to switch.
Fivenines hosts the monitoring platform and metric history. You install the agent and configure the collectors and checks your environment needs. Choose this model when you want to operate your servers without also maintaining the storage for their monitoring history. See the Linux server monitoring coverage for supported systems and collector prerequisites.
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Quick Comparison
The rows that usually decide whether Netdata stays in the stack or Fivenines replaces it.
| Feature | N Netdata |
Fivenines
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|---|---|---|
| Metric storage | On your Agents / Parents | Hosted by Fivenines |
| Metric retention | Configured on Agents / Parents | 24 months on every plan |
| Dashboard access | Local or Netdata Cloud | Hosted dashboard |
| Uptime monitoring | Agent-based HTTP/TCP/ICMP/DNS | Managed multi-region probes |
| Public status pages | ||
| SNMP monitoring | Device profiles and collector configuration | Agent polling host and device credentials |
| Alert notifications | ||
| Proxmox VM monitoring | ||
| Database & service monitoring | ||
| Open source agent | ||
| Package vulnerability scanning | ||
| Container image scanning | Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine, Pro+ | |
| Pricing and billing | Free agent / Cloud $4.50/node/mo (annual) | €19/mo for 15 monitors (monthly) |
Why teams consider Fivenines instead of Netdata
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Hosted metric history
Fivenines manages metric storage, with 24 months of retention on every plan. You still control which supported collectors and checks run in your environment.
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External uptime checks
Check HTTPS, TCP, ICMP and DNS from managed probe regions alongside host metrics. Netdata also supports agent-based availability checks; the difference is where the checks run and who operates the probes.
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Response and customer updates
Use Fivenines workflows to route alerts and open incidents, keep a timeline, and publish customer-facing updates to a status page. Evaluate that response process as part of your monitoring trial.
When Netdata might be a better fit
Netdata and Fivenines pricing
The Netdata agent is free and collects and streams metrics from any number of nodes. Without a paid plan, its dashboards show up to five nodes, whether you use the local dashboard or Netdata Cloud Community, which is for personal use. Netdata also offers a personal-use Homelab plan. Business Cloud is listed at $4.50 per node per month with annual billing.
Fivenines Starter is €19/month with monthly billing for 15 monitors. Servers, uptime checks, cron tasks and other monitor types share that allowance. Five servers, five uptime checks and five cron tasks use all 15 monitors. Higher plans change limits and feature access.
These are different billing units, currencies and billing periods. Price the inventory and features you actually need, including the storage you operate for Netdata, before comparing total costs.
Evaluate the switch before retiring Netdata
- Pilot a representative host. Check the collectors, sampling interval and resource use against your workload. For virtualized infrastructure, review the Proxmox monitoring scope against your cluster needs.
- Recreate and test your checks. Configure thresholds and recipients, then verify an alert and its recovery. Compare Netdata's agent-side checks with the external network paths you want Fivenines probes to observe.
- Keep the history you need. Fivenines starts collecting new metrics. It does not import Netdata history or configuration, so retain your existing data until you no longer need it.
Start with one host whose normal workload you know. Use the 14-day trial to check the metrics and notification path above before moving the rest of your fleet.
Netdata capabilities and published prices checked against its official documentation on 25 September 2026.
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