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Self-hosted alternatives to Prometheus + Grafana

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About these Prometheus + Grafana alternatives

3 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Prometheus + Grafana are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.

Highest rated
netdata (81 200 GitHub stars, GPL-3.0 license, written in Go), followed by maintenant and StatLite
Docker
3 of the top 3 ship an official Docker image
Easiest to set up
netdata, maintenant and StatLite
Recently updated
maintenant v1.11.0 on 2026-10-28

Prometheus + Grafana alternatives compared

ProjectLicenseLanguageStarsDockerSetupLatest releaseScore
netdataGPL-3.0Go81 200YesEasyv2.12.287
maintenantApache-2.0Go531YesEasyv1.11.054
StatLiteMITGo189YesEasyv0.7.047