Grafana vs Monika
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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Compare Grafana with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Superset Prometheus Metabase Portainer CE Umami PostHog CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Postiz Netron Glances 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 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 Monika with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Prometheus Glances InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Apache SkyWalking Beszel Upptime Gatus Checkmate Healthchecks Beszel Hub Blackbox Exporter PHP Server Monitor Statping-ng Vigil Peekaping Cloudprober Lunalytics
Feature Grafana Monika Category Monitoring & Status Monitoring & Status License AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0 Language TypeScript TypeScript Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 512 MB 128 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, helm docker, binary GitHub stars ★ 76,153 ★ 625 First released 2014 2021 Replaces Datadog Pingdom, Datadog Synthetics
Why pick each one
Choose Grafana if… Beautiful flexible dashboards Broad data source support Strong community Grafana details Choose Monika if… Released under the Apache-2.0 license Easy to set up — beginner-friendly First-class Docker support for quick deployment Written in TypeScript Monika details
Frequently asked questions Is Grafana or Monika better? Neither is universally better. Grafana has the larger community, while Monika is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Grafana and Monika free and open-source? Yes. Grafana is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Monika under Apache-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Grafana and Monika with Docker? Grafana: yes. Monika: yes.