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Phlare vs Thanos

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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PH Phlare Self-hosted status page and incident communication tool VS TH Thanos Highly available Prometheus setup with long-term storage
FeaturePhlareThanos
CategoryMonitoring & StatusMonitoring & Status
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseApache-2.0
LanguagePHPGo
Setup difficultyMediumHard
Min. RAM256 MB1,024 MB
Deploymentdocker, bare-metaldocker, kubernetes, helm
GitHub stars★ 15,183★ 14,167
First released20142018
ReplacesStatuspage, Better UptimeDatadog, Grafana Cloud

Why pick each one

Choose Phlare if…

  • Polished public-facing page
  • REST API
Phlare details

Choose Thanos if…

  • Scales Prometheus to massive deployments
  • Cheap long-term storage
Thanos details

Frequently asked questions

Is Phlare or Thanos better?

Phlare is the stronger all-round pick: it has both the larger community and the simpler medium setup. Consider Thanos if its specific feature set fits your needs better.

Are Phlare and Thanos free and open-source?

Yes. Phlare is licensed under BSD-3-Clause and Thanos under Apache-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.

Can I run Phlare and Thanos with Docker?

Phlare: yes. Thanos: yes.

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