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

grafanaYolks
Score90/10048/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#25 of 44 in Container Management
GitHub stars77 583195
Stars, last 30 days+690+0
Stable releases, 12 months530
Latest releasev13.2.5 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptDockerfile

Which one should you pick?

grafana scores 90/100 against 48/100 for Yolks, so it is the safer default.

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

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

grafana is growing faster right now (+690 stars in 30 days).

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