Homer vs Apache SkyWalking
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 Homer with
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Compare Apache SkyWalking with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana 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 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 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
Feature Homer Apache SkyWalking Category Dashboards & Startpages Monitoring & Status License Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0 Language Vue Java Setup difficulty Easy Hard Min. RAM 64 MB 2,048 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal docker, kubernetes, helm GitHub stars ★ 11,537 ★ 24,915 First released 2019 2015 Replaces Heimdall New Relic, Datadog
Why pick each one
Choose Homer if… Extremely lightweight Trivial to host Fast Homer details
Frequently asked questions Is Homer or Apache SkyWalking better? Neither is universally better. Apache SkyWalking has the larger community, while Homer is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Homer and Apache SkyWalking free and open-source? Yes. Homer is licensed under Apache-2.0 and Apache SkyWalking under Apache-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Homer and Apache SkyWalking with Docker? Homer: yes. Apache SkyWalking: yes.