Hyperping vs. Netdata

The Netdata alternative you don't have to operate yourself

Netdata is a good agent, and you run all of it: the nodes, the parent nodes, the storage tiers and the alert routing. Hyperping installs one agent per host, keeps CPU, memory, filesystem, disk I/O and network in a hosted dashboard, and pairs those host metrics with uptime checks from 18 regions, status pages and on-call. Pro is $74/mo with 20 servers included.

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Side-by-side comparison

Same servers. A lot less to run.

Netdata is free, open source, and collects more per node than almost anything else at one second resolution. The tradeoff is that the agents, the parent nodes, the retention and the routing are yours to keep alive. Here is what each setup includes and where the two genuinely differ.

20 servers · host metrics, uptime checks and on-call · billed annually

Twenty servers for $74 a month, with nothing to host.

Netdata Business lists around $4 per node per month, and the agents, parent nodes and retention still run on your infrastructure. Hyperping Pro covers 20 server agents plus 100 uptime monitors, 3 status pages and on-call in the same plan.

Same order of price, none of the infrastructure
Hyperping Pro$74/mo20 servers · 100 monitors · 3 status pages · on-call · 5 seats
Netdata$80/mo20 nodes on Business · uptime checks, status pages and paging not included
Compare setupsList pricing as of 2026 · what each side includes
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Where the two split
Who runs the monitoring stackAgents, storage, dashboards and upgrades
We doOne install command per host, no parent nodes to size
You doAgents, parents, retention and upgrades on your hosts
Metric resolutionHow often a data point lands
30 secondsSame cadence on every plan
1 secondHigher resolution than Hyperping collects
Collector breadthWhat the agent can scrape on a host
Host metricsCPU, memory, filesystem, disk I/O, network
800+ collectorsDatabases, web servers, queues and more
Per-process and per-container metricsWhich process or container is burning the CPU
Host level only, not ingested
cgroups, containers and processes included
Windows serversAgent support outside Linux and macOS
Linux with systemd, macOS with launchd
Windows agent available
External uptime checksConfirming the service answers from outside the host
18 regionsFailed checks re-verified elsewhere before anyone is paged
From your own nodesLocal httpcheck collectors, one vantage point
Status pagesTelling customers what you already know
Public and private pages, custom domain
Dashboards are built for your team, not customers
On-call schedules and escalationGetting a human to acknowledge at 3am
Included from Essentials at $24/mo
Route alerts into a separate paging tool
Metric historyHow far back the charts go
2 to 30 days7 days on Essentials, 14 on Pro, 30 on Business
Your disks decideTiered storage you size, 14 days on Business Cloud
Cost for 20 serversList price, billed annually
$74/mo20 agents, uptime checks and on-call in the same plan
$0 to $80/moFree self hosted, or about $4/node on Business
What both tools collect
CPU utilization and load averages
Memory used, available and total
Filesystem usage per mount point
Disk I/O per block device
Network throughput per interface
Host inventory: OS, kernel, CPU model, boot time
Threshold alerts on host metrics
Linux agent on amd64 and arm64

Hyperping's reputation in our company is that it's more reactive than Datadog. We usually get notifications from Hyperping before Datadog.

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Fabrice GregoireSite Reliability Engineer, Alma
Why teams choose Hyperping

More than an uptime checker.

One focused workflow for detecting issues, reaching the right people, and keeping customers informed.

One command, then nothing to maintain

Installing the Hyperping agent is a single curl command on each host. It runs an embedded OpenTelemetry collector, ships gzipped OTLP over HTTP every 30 seconds, and keeps an on-disk queue at /var/lib/hyperping/queue so an ingest outage or a reboot doesn't leave a hole in your charts. It sits around 50 MB of RSS with no JVM. There are no parent nodes to size, no retention tiers to tune, and no dashboard server to keep alive. The install guide takes about two minutes.

Inside and outside on the same timeline

Netdata shows the load average climbing to 14 on one node. Whether customers noticed is a different question, and answering it needs a check from outside the host. Hyperping runs uptime checks from 18 regions right next to the host metrics, so a CPU spike and a slow checkout page sit in one view instead of two tools you correlate by timestamp.

The alert reaches an actual person

Server alerting is on every paid plan: thresholds on CPU, memory and filesystem usage, plus agent liveness. When metrics go stale and then offline, Hyperping opens an outage and runs your escalation policy through email, SMS, phone calls and Slack until someone acknowledges. Netdata raises the alarm well; the rotation, the acknowledgement and the follow-up live in whatever paging tool you wire up next to it.

Thirty seconds instead of one

Per second collection is real, and it is the right call when you are chasing a kernel-level problem while it happens. For paging thresholds and capacity trends, which is what most teams actually alert on, 30 second samples carry the same signal without the storage you would otherwise run yourself. If you need per second forensics on a few hosts, keep Netdata there and let Hyperping cover the fleet.

Pricing

What each one costs

A straightforward view of what each plan gives your team.

01

Netdata pricing as of 2026

Community: free, self hosted, unlimited nodes, up to 5 users, with limited retention on the Netdata Cloud side. Homelab: $0 for personal setups.

Business: around $4 per node per month billed annually, with 14 day retention and full alerting. Enterprise: custom pricing.

The agent itself is open source and stays free. The paid tiers buy the Netdata Cloud layer on top of it. Check their pricing page before you budget, since plan limits move.

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Hyperping pricing

Free: 1 server agent with 2 days of metric history, 20 monitors and 1 status page, without server alerting.

Essentials ($24/mo): 5 agents, 7 days of history, server alerting and on-call. Pro ($74/mo): 20 agents, 14 days, 100 monitors, 3 status pages, 5 seats. Business ($249/mo): 100 agents, 30 days of history.

Extra servers are $2/month on Essentials and Pro, $1.50/month on Business. Yearly rates shown; monthly billing is higher.

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When Netdata is the right call

Netdata wins on resolution and breadth: per second collection, 800+ collectors, per process and per container metrics, machine learning anomaly scores per metric, and a Windows agent. Hyperping does none of those.

It also keeps every data point inside infrastructure you control, which settles the question when metrics cannot leave your network. And the Community tier is genuinely free on unlimited nodes.

If you have someone who owns the monitoring stack and you need that depth, keep Netdata. Plenty of teams run it on their database hosts and use Hyperping for fleet-wide alerting, external checks and customer communication.

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Bottom line

At 20 servers, Netdata Business lists around $80/month and you still run the agents, the parent nodes and the retention, then wire alerts into a separate paging tool.

Hyperping Pro is $74/month with 20 server agents, uptime checks from 18 regions, 3 status pages, on-call and 5 seats. Netdata gives you more detail per host. Hyperping gives you the host metrics teams act on, plus the outside check, the status page and the call to a human, with no stack of your own to keep running.

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Legacy Stack vs. Hyperping

Stop paying for bloat. Get a unified platform that saves you money and actually works together.

Legacy Stack

Multiple disconnected tools
Netdata (20 nodes, Business)
$80/mo
Statuspage.io (2 pages)
$348/mo
PagerDuty (10 users)
$210/mo
Total Monthly$638
Total Yearly$7,656

+ time spent integrating & context-switching

Save approx. $4,500/year
Hyperping
All-in-one monitoring platform
1000 monitors
Unlimited status pages
15 team members
On-call & incident response
SAML SSO
Priority support
Total Monthly$249
Total Yearly$2,990
Faster monitoring, simpler workflow.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The practical details teams usually want to know before making the switch.

A safer switch

Start migrating in minutes. Cut over when you are ready.

Move from Netdata without creating a blind spot. The guides below cover setup, parallel verification, and the final cutover.

Start for free Monitoring quickstart
Step 1

Inventory your Netdata setup

List checks, alert routes, status pages, and the historical reports you want to keep.

Use the monitoring quickstart
Step 2

Recreate monitoring and alerting

Add monitors, connect notification channels, and rebuild escalation or on-call rules.

Follow the quickstart
Step 3

Run both tools, then cut over

Compare alerts in parallel, verify customer communication, and only then retire the old setup.

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