Beszel vs PostHog
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted apps from related categories
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Beszel with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Superset Prometheus Metabase Portainer CE Umami CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Postiz Netron Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Redash Grafana Loki Plausible Dashy Apache SkyWalking Dockge Jaeger Vector Matomo Kibana GoAccess Cube cAdvisor Telegraf VictoriaMetrics Zipkin Upptime Phlare Logstash Sampler Dashboard Thanos Druid Dozzle Pinpoint APM Unleash Node Exporter Fluentd OpenSearch Rybbit Gatus Grafana Pyroscope Homer Checkmate Healthchecks HyperDX Benphelps Homepage Heimdall Beszel Hub Alertmanager Graylog ntopng Scrutiny Fluent Bit Coroot OpenTelemetry Collector Hertzbeat Statup Status WatchYourLAN NetAlertX Pulse Monitor Zabbix Graphite Speedtest Tracker Cortex Blackbox Exporter Grafana Tempo Grafana Mimir Kener Parca LibreNMS Monitoror Errbit Uptrace mtail Grafana OnCall Redis Exporter Vmstat Exporter PostgreSQL Exporter Grafana Alloy collectd Pushgateway Robusta Cstate Karma Kafka Exporter MySQL Server Exporter Kapacitor Perses Checkmk Kuberhealthy Icinga 2 PHP Server Monitor SNMP Exporter Process Exporter Munin VictoriaLogs Elasticsearch Exporter Grafana Beyla Nagios Core NGINX Prometheus Exporter Statping-ng Bugsink Smokeping Vigil Cacti Mailrise Domain Locker Proxmox VE Exporter Oncall Peekaping OpenNMS Horizon Shinken ElastAlert 2 Grafana Faro Sensu Go Percona Monitoring and Management Icinga Web 2 Kuma Mieru JSON Exporter Smokeping Prober Argus Monitor Web PHP-FPM Exporter Cloudprober Ping Exporter Monika IPMI Exporter SQL Exporter smartctl Exporter Pandora FMS Community Thruk NetXMS Apache Exporter NUT Exporter Speedtest Exporter Monit Naemon Bytebot Watch Fail2Ban Webinterface Lunalytics Observium Phoenix Panel
Compare PostHog with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Superset Prometheus Metabase Umami Postiz Netron Glances InfluxDB Grafana k6 Redash Grafana Loki Plausible Apache SkyWalking Jaeger Vector Matomo GoAccess Druid Unleash Rybbit OpenReplay Highlight.io Fathom Lite Plausible Community Plus Evidence Flagsmith OpenPanel Countly Community Edition GoatCounter Jitsu Ackee RudderStack Shynet Tianji Open Web Analytics Counterscale Vince Analytics Aptabase Litlyx Middleware Gramps Web Socioboard Shaper Swetrix Pirsch Counter.dev Selfhost Offen Fair Web Analytics Rakam Analytics Medama AWStats Daily Stars Explorer TelemetryDeck Self-Hosted EDA Liwan Abby Mixpost Prisme Analytics HitKeep ANALOG d8a.tech Statistics for Strava
Feature Beszel PostHog Category Monitoring & Status Web Analytics License MIT MIT Language Go Python Setup difficulty Easy Hard Min. RAM 128 MB 4,096 MB Deployment docker, binary docker, kubernetes GitHub stars ★ 24,108 ★ 37,548 First released 2024 2020 Replaces UptimeRobot Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude
Why pick each one
Choose Beszel if… Extremely lightweight Simple multi-host view Easy setup Beszel details Choose PostHog if… Comprehensive product suite Session replay included Open-core model PostHog details
Frequently asked questions Is Beszel or PostHog better? Neither is universally better. PostHog has the larger community, while Beszel is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Beszel and PostHog free and open-source? Yes. Beszel is licensed under MIT and PostHog under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Beszel and PostHog with Docker? Beszel: yes. PostHog: yes.