Grafana Loki vs Grafana Mimir
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 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 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 Grafana Mimir with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Prometheus Glances SigNoz InfluxDB Grafana k6 Apache SkyWalking Beszel Kibana OpenObserve cAdvisor VictoriaMetrics Thanos HyperDX Coroot Hertzbeat Pulse Monitor Zabbix Graphite Cortex Monitoror Uptrace
Feature Grafana Loki Grafana Mimir Category Monitoring & Status Monitoring & Status License AGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0 Language Go Go Setup difficulty Medium Hard Min. RAM 512 MB 1,024 MB Deployment docker, kubernetes, helm docker, kubernetes, helm GitHub stars ★ 28,687 ★ 5,201 First released 2018 2022 Replaces Splunk, Datadog Logs Datadog, Chronosphere
Why pick each one
Choose Grafana Loki if… Cheap to run compared to full-text indexers Familiar Prometheus-style labels Grafana Loki details Choose Grafana Mimir if… Proven at billion-series scale Easier to operate than Cortex Grafana Mimir details
Frequently asked questions Is Grafana Loki or Grafana Mimir better? Grafana Loki is the stronger all-round pick: it has both the larger community and the simpler medium setup. Consider Grafana Mimir if its specific feature set fits your needs better.
Are Grafana Loki and Grafana Mimir free and open-source? Yes. Grafana Loki is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Grafana Mimir under AGPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Grafana Loki and Grafana Mimir with Docker? Grafana Loki: yes. Grafana Mimir: yes.