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NETWAYS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

NETWAYS GmbH, based in Nuremberg, provides consulting, support, training and managed services for open-source infrastructure and monitoring software such as Icinga, Grafana, Prometheus, GitLab and Elastic. The company also offers web services, managed Kubernetes environments and events. Services are delivered as a service: the company operates systems for customers and supports the software. NETWAYS is not itself an open-source product, but the tools it supports are, and can be deployed independently of its services.

According to its imprint, the company is seated in Nuremberg, and its website states that its systems run in a data centre in Germany. The imprint names the managing directors but no shareholders, so ownership has not been established. The privacy policy refers to the GDPR, but Google Analytics and Akismet send data to servers in the United States. For a European organisation this means German hosting and an open-source foundation that can also run on its own infrastructure; processing by the named US services needs separate assessment.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Network & Monitoring
Type	Product
Website	netways.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to NETWAYS

The European alternatives to NETWAYS come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with NETWAYS

NETWAYS is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so NETWAYS scores best on data residency.

NETWAYS is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs NETWAYS together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to NETWAYS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to NETWAYS include Centreon, Checkmk and collectd. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to NETWAYS?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to NETWAYS include Centreon, Checkmk, collectd and Healthchecks.io. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is NETWAYS GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

NETWAYS is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes NETWAYS an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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