Monika vs Grafana Loki
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 Monika with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Prometheus Glances InfluxDB Grafana k6 Apache SkyWalking Beszel Upptime Gatus Checkmate Healthchecks Beszel Hub Blackbox Exporter PHP Server Monitor Statping-ng Vigil Peekaping Cloudprober Lunalytics
Compare Grafana Loki with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Elasticsearch Grafana Superset Prometheus Metabase Portainer CE Umami PostHog CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Postiz Netron Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Redash Plausible Dashy Apache SkyWalking Beszel 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 Quickwit 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
Feature Monika Grafana Loki Category Monitoring & Status Monitoring & Status License Apache-2.0 AGPL-3.0 Language TypeScript Go Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 128 MB 512 MB Deployment docker, binary docker, kubernetes, helm GitHub stars ★ 625 ★ 28,687 First released 2021 2018 Replaces Pingdom, Datadog Synthetics Splunk, Datadog Logs
Why pick each one
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 Choose Grafana Loki if… Cheap to run compared to full-text indexers Familiar Prometheus-style labels Grafana Loki details
Frequently asked questions Is Monika or Grafana Loki better? Neither is universally better. Grafana Loki 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 Monika and Grafana Loki free and open-source? Yes. Monika is licensed under Apache-2.0 and Grafana Loki under AGPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Monika and Grafana Loki with Docker? Monika: yes. Grafana Loki: yes.