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Grafana OnCall vs Oncall

A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted monitoring & status options — licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one replaces.

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GR Grafana OnCall Open-source on-call management and incident escalation VS ON Oncall Calendar-based on-call scheduling and team management
FeatureGrafana OnCallOncall
CategoryMonitoring & StatusMonitoring & Status
LicenseAGPL-3.0BSD-2-Clause
LanguagePythonPython
Setup difficultyMediumMedium
Min. RAM512 MB256 MB
Deploymentdocker, kubernetes, helmdocker, bare-metal
GitHub stars★ 3,889★ 1,256
First released20212017
ReplacesPagerDuty, OpsgeniePagerDuty

Why pick each one

Choose Grafana OnCall if…

  • Strong PagerDuty alternative
  • Integrates with Grafana
Grafana OnCall details

Choose Oncall if…

  • Simple scheduling model
  • Battle-tested at LinkedIn
Oncall details

Frequently asked questions

Is Grafana OnCall or Oncall better?

Neither is universally better. Grafana OnCall has the larger community; both share a medium setup difficulty, so the decision comes down to features and licensing.

Are Grafana OnCall and Oncall free and open-source?

Yes. Grafana OnCall is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Oncall under BSD-2-Clause. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.

Can I run Grafana OnCall and Oncall with Docker?

Grafana OnCall: yes. Oncall: yes.

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