Netdata is not a traditional SIEM - it’s an infrastructure observability platform with strong security monitoring capabilities. It excels at real-time infrastructure security (resource-based attacks, crypto mining, anomalies) but lacks threat intelligence feeds, signature-based detection, and network security features (DPI, TLS decryption). Deploy Netdata complementary to your SIEM for comprehensive security: Netdata provides infrastructure visibility and anomaly detection, while your SIEM handles threat correlation and compliance reporting. Learn about integration strategies.

Netdata uses ML-based anomaly detection (18 models per metric) to identify unusual infrastructure behavior - crypto mining, resource abuse, DoS attempts, privilege escalation patterns. This catches resource-based attacks and zero-day exploits that signature-based systems miss. For threat attribution and IOC correlation, integrate Netdata anomalies with your SIEM’s threat intelligence. Explore ML architecture.

Week 1-2: Pilot deployment on 10-50 nodes, evaluate visibility and ML accuracy. Week 3-4: Integration planning with existing SIEM, configure Parent clusters. Month 2-3: Production rollout to 100-500 nodes, train security team. Month 4+: Optimization and custom health checks. Total time to production: 2-3 months vs. 6-12 months for traditional SIEMs. View deployment guide.

Metrics, logs and traces stay on your infrastructure - spans are stored on the Agents that receive them, and only metadata (node names, chart titles, alert configs) travels to Netdata Cloud, which brokers access for unified dashboards. Queries are distributed to Agents/Parents, not centralized. For metrics and logs, fully air-gapped deployments are supported with on-premises Netdata Cloud. SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with systemd-journal Forward Secure Sealing (FSS) for journal tamper detection. Review security design.

The Business plan covers dashboards, ML anomaly detection, 10 AI credits per month, alerts, notifications, SSO, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, and a 99.9% SLA. Pricing is per node, with P90 billing protection, no charges for metrics volume, Logs Monitoring (querying logs in place), users, data retention or containers, and volume discounts available. See current plan details.

Netdata monitors connection metadata (IPs, ports, bandwidth, connection states) via eBPF but does not decrypt TLS/SSL or perform Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). For encrypted traffic analysis, integrate with specialized NDR vendors (Vectra, Corelight, ExtraHop). Netdata provides host-level visibility; NDR provides network-level visibility. Learn about network monitoring.

Netdata provides component-level alerts (per-disk, per-interface, per-container) that are accurate and actionable - not generic threshold-based noise. 400+ pre-configured alert templates based on real-world operational experience ship out of the box. Alert grouping by category, class, or labels at dashboards helps organize notifications. Cloud deduplication and severity filtering reduce notification volume. Note that ML-based anomaly detection is a separate observability signal and does not directly influence alert transitions. Explore alerting.

Netdata supports GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, HIPAA through data sovereignty and comprehensive audit logging. SOC 2 Type 2 certified (Cloud). Journal tamper detection via systemd-journal Forward Secure Sealing (FSS). However, Netdata does not provide pre-built compliance dashboards (NIST, PCI, HIPAA templates) - export audit logs to compliance tools (Vanta, Drata, Hyperproof) for automated reporting. Review compliance capabilities.

Distributed architecture with linear scaling - each Agent operates independently. Deploy Parent clusters (one per ~500 nodes) for centralization. Proven at 100,000+ nodes processing 4.5+ billion metrics/second globally. No central bottleneck, no single point of failure. Parent clusters use 20 cores, 80 GB RAM per 2M metrics/second. Learn about scalability.

Zero learning curve - no query languages (no PromQL, SQL, KQL), no dashboard building, no specialized training. Junior engineers effective from day one. AI Chat provides natural language troubleshooting. Anomaly Advisor automates root cause analysis. Time to productivity: <1 day vs. 2-4 weeks for traditional SIEMs. Explore ease of use.

Netdata provides zero-code application visibility (per-process CPU, memory, I/O, network) and detects resource anomalies - and ingests OpenTelemetry distributed traces, stored on your own Agents like your metrics and logs. Use Netdata for infrastructure security and OpenTelemetry tracing, and add an APM such as Datadog or Dynatrace if you need code-level profiling. Learn about application monitoring.

Export anomalies to SIEM via webhooks or log forwarding. Trigger SOAR playbooks from Netdata alerts. Forward logs to SIEM through the OpenTelemetry Collector stage of Netdata’s logs pipeline, or via systemd-journal-remote. Enrich SIEM events with Netdata infrastructure metrics. 30+ notification integrations (PagerDuty, Slack, Teams, email, webhooks). Native support for Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry. View integrations.

2-4 weeks vs. commercial SIEMs (Splunk, Sentinel, Datadog). Netdata delivers approximately 90% TCO reduction over 5 years through: predictable per-node pricing (no charges for metrics volume), elimination of log pipeline infrastructure, zero training costs, and reduced staffing needs. See TCO analysis.

Yes - Netdata Agents keep collecting, storing, detecting anomalies and alerting without internet, with local metrics dashboards; viewing logs and traces needs a Netdata Cloud sign-in. For centralized dashboards, logs and traces in air-gapped environments, deploy Netdata Cloud On-Premises (Kubernetes cluster, 1.23+). All components run within your datacenter with zero external dependencies. Learn about on-premises deployment.

Auto-discovers pods, containers, and services with per-second resource tracking. Monitors container lifecycle, resource limits, and cgroup metrics. eBPF does NOT run inside containers - falls back to cgroups network accounting (less detailed). For deep container network visibility, integrate with NDR. Excellent for resource-based security monitoring. Explore Kubernetes monitoring.