Glances vs Umami
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted apps from related categories
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
Not the right match-up?
Compare Glances with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Superset Prometheus Metabase Portainer CE PostHog CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Postiz Netron Homepage SigNoz InfluxDB Grafana k6 Redash Grafana Loki Plausible Dashy Apache SkyWalking Beszel Dockge Jaeger Vector Matomo Kibana GoAccess OpenObserve 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 Umami with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Superset Prometheus Metabase PostHog Postiz Netron InfluxDB Grafana k6 Redash Grafana Loki Plausible Apache SkyWalking Beszel 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 Glances Umami Category Monitoring & Status Web Analytics License LGPL-3.0 MIT Language Python TypeScript Setup difficulty Easy Easy Min. RAM 128 MB 512 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, binary docker GitHub stars ★ 33,269 ★ 38,103 First released 2012 2020 Replaces Datadog Google Analytics
Why pick each one
Choose Glances if… Very easy to run Lightweight Good single-host overview Glances details Choose Umami if… Very easy to self-host Privacy-friendly Clean interface Umami details
Frequently asked questions Is Glances or Umami better? Neither is universally better. Umami has the larger community; both share a easy setup difficulty, so the decision comes down to features and licensing.
Are Glances and Umami free and open-source? Yes. Glances is licensed under LGPL-3.0 and Umami under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Glances and Umami with Docker? Glances: yes. Umami: yes.