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grafanavsRStudio Server

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

grafanaRStudio Server
Score90/10067/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#21 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars77 5825 102
Stars, last 30 days+689+26
Stable releases, 12 months530
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 67/100 for RStudio Server, so it is the safer default.

grafana ships more often: 53 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for RStudio Server.

grafana is growing faster right now (+689 stars in 30 days).

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