An open-source, sovereign, and horizontally scalable monitoring platform — custom-tailored for your infrastructure, hosted in German data centres, and fully compliant with European data protection law.
Grafana Cloud, Splunk, Datadog — your operational data flows to US hyperscalers, subject to the US CLOUD Act. No way around it.
Per-seat licensing, per-GB ingestion fees, egress charges. Bills explode as you grow. Splunk can reach €100k+/year for mid-sized teams.
Proprietary query languages, closed APIs, and migration barriers trap you in ecosystems you never chose.
DSGVO, NIS2, BSI IT-Grundschutz, TISAX — regulators demand full control over where your data lives and who can access it.
Generic SaaS platforms force you to adapt your workflows to their product — not the other way around.
A platform designed for European enterprises — open, sovereign, and built around your requirements.
Your data never leaves German soil. Rechenzentren in Frankfurt and Nürnberg, operated under German law.
Every deployment is shaped around your team, your stack, and your SLAs — not a generic template.
VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Keycloak, Fluent Bit — auditable, forkable, zero proprietary dependency.
VictoriaMetrics ingests millions of data points per second with 10× better compression than Prometheus.
Kubernetes-native horizontal scaling — from small teams to petabyte-scale enterprise deployments.
NETWAYS runs the platform end-to-end — updates, backups, alerting, 24/7 ops. You focus on your product.
Every request authenticated via Keycloak OIDC. mTLS between services. Network policies enforced by the Kubernetes operator.
All platform configuration lives in Git. Reproducible, auditable, rollback-ready deployments via Kubernetes operators.
VMAuth provides per-team, per-application access control on a shared or dedicated cluster footprint.
Full Prometheus-compatible API. OpenTelemetry-native. Drop-in replacement for existing monitoring stacks.
High-performance time-series database. Prometheus-compatible remote write & query API. Supports VMSingle (small) and VMCluster (sharded, HA) topologies.
Efficient log storage engine from the VictoriaMetrics family. Accepts logs from Fluent Bit, Logstash, Promtail. LogsQL for powerful querying.
Alerting engine integrated with the VictoriaMetrics operator. Prometheus-compatible alert rules, routed via Alertmanager to Slack, PagerDuty, email.
Unified visualisation layer for metrics, logs, and traces. 500+ community dashboards, SLO tracking, incident management, and PDF reporting.
Enterprise-grade identity & access management. OIDC, SAML, LDAP federation. Fine-grained RBAC per team and per data source.
Modern Kubernetes Gateway API implementation. TLS termination, Let's Encrypt automation, rate limiting, and advanced traffic management.
| Feature | NETWAYS Platform | Grafana Cloud | Splunk | Datadog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data hosted in Germany | ✅ Always | ❌ US/EU optional | ❌ US primary | ❌ US primary |
| GDPR / BSI compliance | ✅ By design | ⚠️ Partial | ⚠️ Complex | ⚠️ Complex |
| Pricing model | ✅ Resource-based | Per series/logs GB | Per GB ingested | Per host + per GB |
| Vendor lock-in | ✅ None (open source) | Medium | High | High |
| Custom tailoring | ✅ Full | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| On-premise option | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes (expensive) | ❌ No |
| Prometheus-compatible | ✅ Native | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Via adapter | ✅ Yes |
| OpenTelemetry support | ✅ Native | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Single-node deployment. Perfect for teams getting started. Handles millions of time series with low resource footprint. Zero operational overhead.
Horizontally sharded architecture with independent scaling of ingestion (vminsert), storage (vmstorage), and query (vmselect) layers. No rebalancing downtime.
The platform runs on NWS Managed Kubernetes (Gardener-based). Node pools scale automatically. Control plane is fully managed — no etcd maintenance, no API server patching.
VMAuth provides tenant-level isolation on a shared cluster. Each team gets their own namespace, access scope, and ingestion limits — on a single platform.
The VictoriaMetrics Operator manages all VM resources declaratively. Scale from single to cluster topology by changing one YAML field — zero downtime migration.
All data is stored and processed exclusively in German data centres, operated under German and EU law. No transfers to third countries.
Data minimisation, purpose limitation, and right to deletion are built into the platform architecture — not bolted on afterward.
Platform hardening aligned with BSI IT-Grundschutz catalogues and NIS2 directive requirements for critical infrastructure operators.
Open-source stack means you can audit every line of code running in your environment. No black-box proprietary agents.
Unlike US-based SaaS providers, NETWAYS Web Services GmbH is a German company not subject to US CLOUD Act subpoenas. Your operational data remains under exclusive EU jurisdiction.
Infrastructure certified to automotive (TISAX) and international information security (ISO 27001) standards. Suitable for regulated industries: finance, healthcare, public sector.
We sign a GDPR-compliant data processing agreement (AVV) as required by Art. 28 DSGVO — standard with every contract, no extra paperwork.
30-minute requirements discussion. We map your stack and size the platform.
A running platform in your environment within 2 weeks. No commitment required.
Transparent, resource-based pricing. No per-GB surprises. Fixed monthly cost.