# How is Netdata Cloud different from the Netdata Agent?

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**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-is-netdata-cloud-different-from-the-netdata-agent/1063 "2021-03-11T12:26:49Z")\
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The open-source Agent monitors the system it’s installed on, along with any applications we have a [collector](https://github.com/netdata/netdata-learn-docusaurus/blob/master/docs/agent/collectors) for. Netdata Cloud integrates many distributed Agents into one web application that you can use to see an entire infrastructure’s real-time metrics.