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grafanavsSwizGuard

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grafanaSwizGuard
Score90/10042/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#46 of 56 in VPN
GitHub stars77 588232
Stars, last 30 days+695+0
Stable releases, 12 months530
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptShell

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 42/100 for SwizGuard, so it is the safer default.

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

grafana is growing faster right now (+695 stars in 30 days).

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