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grafanavsTerraforming Mars

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

grafanaTerraforming Mars
Score90/10062/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#4 of 14 in Gaming
GitHub stars77 582961
Stars, last 30 days+689+9
Stable releases, 12 months530
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 62/100 for Terraforming Mars, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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