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grafanavsrestic-rest-server

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

grafanarestic-rest-server
Score90/10060/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#18 of 46 in Backup
GitHub stars77 5681 531
Stars, last 30 days+694+35
Stable releases, 12 months530
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0BSD-2-Clause
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 60/100 for restic-rest-server, so it is the safer default.

grafana ships more often: 53 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for restic-rest-server.

If you want the quickest setup, restic-rest-server is easier to run; grafana needs more configuration.

grafana is growing faster right now (+694 stars in 30 days).

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