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grafanavssphinx-relay

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

grafanasphinx-relay
Score90/10044/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#71 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars77 582247
Stars, last 30 days+689+0
Stable releases, 12 months530
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 44/100 for sphinx-relay, so it is the safer default.

grafana ships more often: 53 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sphinx-relay.

If you want the quickest setup, grafana is easier to run; sphinx-relay needs more configuration.

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

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