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grafanavsRocket.Chat

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

grafanaRocket.Chat
Score90/10082/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 13 in Instant Messaging
GitHub stars77 57346 348
Stars, last 30 days+699+187
Stable releases, 12 months5336
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 20268.5.4 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 82/100 for Rocket.Chat, so it is the safer default.

grafana ships more often: 53 stable releases in the past year, against 36 for Rocket.Chat.

grafana is growing faster right now (+699 stars in 30 days).

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