Managed Netdata Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Real-time infrastructure monitoring and alerting. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Netdata, no lock-in.
Netdata is a real-time infrastructure monitoring tool that provides per-second metrics with zero configuration. ManageStacks hosts Netdata as a managed service so teams get instant visibility into servers, containers, and applications.
What does Netdata do, and why do teams deploy it?
Netdata delivers real-time, per-second monitoring for servers, containers, and applications with automatic detection of thousands of metrics out of the box. Its lightweight agent requires zero configuration to start collecting system, network, storage, and application metrics, making it one of the fastest ways to gain visibility into infrastructure health.
With built-in anomaly detection powered by machine learning, preconfigured alert templates, and beautiful real-time dashboards, Netdata helps teams identify and resolve performance issues before they impact users. It supports streaming metrics from distributed agents to a central parent node, making it suitable for monitoring entire fleets of servers from a single interface.
- Per-second granularity with thousands of auto-detected metrics
- Zero-configuration setup with automatic service discovery
- ML-powered anomaly detection and smart alerting
- Real-time interactive dashboards with drill-down
- Distributed monitoring with parent-child streaming
- Container and Kubernetes-native monitoring support
Real-time infrastructure monitoring and alerting
What does managed Netdata hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
Self-hosting Netdata vs managed — what does it really cost?
The software is free. The engineer-hours are not.
Running it yourself
- Install Netdata agents on every server and configure parent-child streaming by hand
- Set up persistent storage tiers for per-second metrics retention on the parent node
- Write and maintain alert configurations for hundreds of auto-detected metrics
- Build your own high-availability setup for the central monitoring node
- Handle Netdata version upgrades across parent and child agents without losing historical data
On ManageStacks
- Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace
- Netdata parent node deploys with tiered storage, alerting, and ML anomaly detection pre-configured
- Install lightweight child agents on your servers — they stream to the managed parent automatically
- Hundreds of preconfigured alert templates ship out of the box — customize as needed
- Rolling version upgrades handled by us; child agents update independently
Netdata on ManageStacks vs the alternatives
How Netdata on ManageStacks compares to other infrastructure monitoring solutions.
| Netdata on ManageStacksUs | Datadog Infrastructure | Prometheus + Grafana | Netdata Cloud (SaaS) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Managed on your AWS, Azure, or GCP | Vendor-hosted | Self-hosted (you manage) | Vendor-hosted dashboard |
| Data residency | Your cloud region | Vendor infrastructure | Your infrastructure | Metrics stay local, dashboard vendor-hosted |
| Pricing basis | Flat $29/mo per parent | Per host/month ($15-23+) | Your compute cost | Free tier + paid plans |
| Granularity | Per-second | 10-15 second | 15-second default | Per-second |
| Setup time | Minutes (zero-config) | Minutes (agent install) | Hours (config required) | Minutes (zero-config) |
| Open source | Yes (GPL v3) | No (proprietary) | Yes (Apache 2.0) | Agent is open source |
Provisioning, upgrades, backups and monitoring on your team’s plate.
What does running Netdata yourself involve?
ManageStacks ensures your Netdata monitoring hub is always available and performant, with managed storage and backups so you never lose visibility into your infrastructure.
Netdata key numbers
How long from subscribing to a live instance?
Subscribe
Subscribe to ManageStacks through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace.
Provision
Netdata parent node spins up with tiered metric storage, ML anomaly detection, and alerting — typically under 3 minutes.
Connect agents
Install the one-line Netdata agent on your servers, containers, or Kubernetes nodes. Point them at your managed parent for centralized streaming.
Monitor
Real-time dashboards with per-second granularity appear immediately. Tune alert thresholds and anomaly detection sensitivity for your workload.
When is self-hosting Netdata the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Netdata at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Netdata run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Netdata in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Netdata on ManageStacks
Can I use ManageStacks-hosted Netdata as a central monitoring hub for my other servers?
Yes. ManageStacks hosts the Netdata parent node, and you can install lightweight Netdata agents on your other servers to stream metrics into the central instance for unified monitoring.
How much historical data does Netdata retain on ManageStacks?
ManageStacks configures tiered storage so you get per-second data for recent history and progressively aggregated data for longer retention periods. Exact retention depends on your plan and the number of metrics collected.
Does ManageStacks support Netdata's anomaly detection features?
Yes. The ML-based anomaly detection runs natively within Netdata. ManageStacks provisions sufficient resources to ensure the anomaly detection models train and run smoothly alongside normal metric collection.
Run Netdata without carrying the pager
Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace. We handle provisioning, SSL, monitoring, backups, updates, and security. From $15/mo.