Netdata vs Uptime Kuma
Netdata and Uptime Kuma are both monitoring and observability software. Netdata is open source under GPL-3.0, with 81k GitHub stars. Uptime Kuma is open source under MIT, with 93k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Netdata when
- You want detailed server and container monitoring running within minutes without building Prometheus and Grafana yourself.
- Pick Uptime Kuma when
- You want an easy, UptimeRobot-style monitor on your own server for a homelab or small business.
Side by side
A real-time monitoring agent that auto-detects services and collects per-second metrics for servers, containers and applications, with dashboards and alerts.
A self-hosted monitoring tool that checks HTTP, TCP, ping, DNS, Docker and more, sends alerts through 90+ notification services and publishes status pages.
The agent is open source, but multi-node dashboards and many features go through the paid Netdata Cloud.
Single-instance design, so it does not monitor from multiple locations or scale to very large numbers of checks.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
C, Go and Rust
JavaScript, Vue, Node.js, SQLite and Socket.IO
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
81k GitHub stars
93k GitHub stars
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v2.12.2.
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release 2.5.9.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.