Prometheus vs Statup Status
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 Prometheus with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Superset 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 Heimdall Beszel Hub Alertmanager Graylog ntopng Scrutiny Fluent Bit Coroot OpenTelemetry Collector Hertzbeat 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 Statup Status with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Glances InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Apache SkyWalking Beszel Gatus PHP Server Monitor Statping-ng Statusnook Kuma Mieru Bytebot Watch Phoenix Panel
Feature Prometheus Statup Status Category Monitoring & Status Monitoring & Status License Apache-2.0 GPL-3.0 Language Go Vue Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 512 MB 128 MB Deployment docker, binary, helm docker, binary GitHub stars ★ 65,616 ★ 7,292 First released 2015 2018 Replaces Datadog StatusPage, UptimeRobot
Why pick each one
Choose Prometheus if… Powerful query language Reliable and scalable Huge ecosystem Prometheus details
Frequently asked questions Is Prometheus or Statup Status better? Neither is universally better. Prometheus has the larger community, while Statup Status is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Prometheus and Statup Status free and open-source? Yes. Prometheus is licensed under Apache-2.0 and Statup Status under GPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Prometheus and Statup Status with Docker? Prometheus: yes. Statup Status: yes.