Grafana vs Heimdall
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 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 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 Heimdall with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Prometheus Portainer CE CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Dashy Apache SkyWalking Beszel Dockge Jaeger Vector Cube Sampler Dashboard Homer Benphelps Homepage Glances Web Dashboard Flame Cosmos Server Organizr Your Spotify Dashboard Homarr Personal Management System Walkxcode Startpage dashdot Speedtest Tracker Dashboard Smashing Lobe Startpage Dockpeek Apprise Dashboard Fenrus Mafl
Feature Grafana Heimdall Category Monitoring & Status Dashboards & Startpages License AGPL-3.0 MIT Language TypeScript PHP Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 512 MB 256 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, helm docker GitHub stars ★ 76,153 ★ 9,291 First released 2014 2017 Replaces Datadog Heimdall
Why pick each one
Choose Grafana if… Beautiful flexible dashboards Broad data source support Strong community Grafana details Choose Heimdall if… Very simple to set up Clean look Low maintenance Heimdall details
Frequently asked questions Is Grafana or Heimdall better? Neither is universally better. Grafana has the larger community, while Heimdall is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Grafana and Heimdall free and open-source? Yes. Grafana is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Heimdall under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Grafana and Heimdall with Docker? Grafana: yes. Heimdall: yes.