Does Netdata consume a lot of resources?

No, it is designed to be very lightweight; it even suits entry-level VPS.

Do you need an external service?

No. Netdata runs entirely on your server. Netdata Cloud (free) is optional for aggregating several nodes.

Client Area

Monitoring & Observability

Netdata

Name: Netdata
Availability: InStock

Free real-time monitoring — per-second metrics, zero configuration.

Official documentation Source code

root@mon-serveur — ssh

# when the VPS is created
✓ Netdata installedroot@mon-serveur:~#

About Netdata

Netdata is the easiest open-source monitoring tool to deploy: a single command and you immediately get hundreds of metrics per second (CPU, RAM, disk, network, processes, Docker containers, databases…), with no configuration at all.

On your ServOrbit VPS, Netdata is ideal for monitoring your server's health in real time for free and receiving alerts before an incident affects your users. Lightweight, it consumes very few resources.

What gets installed

Ready when the VPS starts

Compatible OS: Ubuntu 24.04
Application: Netdata
Tech stack: Netdata Agent
Minimum RAM: 512 MB
Minimum CPU: 1 vCPU
Default port: 19999
Access: root over SSH

Key features

Per-second metrics (1 s resolution), not per-minute
Automatic detection of hundreds of services and containers
Ready-to-use interactive dashboards, no configuration
Built-in alerts (email, Slack, Telegram, Discord…)
Very low CPU/RAM footprint
Health monitoring and anomaly detection via machine learning

When to use this solution?

Server monitoring

View your VPS's CPU, RAM, disk and network live, by the second.

Docker monitoring

Automatically track containers (Coolify, n8n, databases…) with no configuration.

Proactive alerts

Get notified as soon as a metric crosses a threshold, before an outage.

Guide

Deploy Netdata on your VPS

Install Netdata
A single command: wget -O /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh https://get.netdata.cloud/kickstart.sh && sh /tmp/netdata-kickstart.sh. The dashboard is available on port 19999.
Secure access
The Netdata dashboard has no login screen: the agent simply cannot ask for a password. It is therefore never published — neither on the internet nor behind a domain. The recipe forces the service to listen on 127.0.0.1 only (the upstream installer otherwise binds it to every interface), and access goes through an SSH tunnel — ssh -L 19999:127.0.0.1:19999 root@<your-vps-ip>, then http://localhost:19999. That dashboard shows the machine's processes, containers, connections and logs: it is a map of your server, not a home page.
Configure alerts
Edit /etc/netdata/health_alarm_notify.conf to enable email, Slack or Telegram notifications.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about Netdata

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Yes, Netdata Open Source is entirely free and self-hosted on your VPS, with no metric limit.

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