Grafana
Grafana is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Monitoring & Status Pages category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog and Grafana Cloud and ships a Docker image. It has 77,511 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 77,511
- Forks
- 14,859
- Open issues
- 2,633
- Commits, last 12 months
- 11,777
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v13.2.4Oct 13, 2026
- Created
- Dec 11, 2013
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 11,777 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors27 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 11,777 |
| Latest release | v13.2.4 (Oct 13, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 656 |
| Open issues | 2,633 |
| Open pull requests | 683 |
| Good first issues | 18 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 11, 2013 |
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About Grafana
Dashboards and visualization for metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, Loki and dozens of other sources.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/grafana/grafana.
Topics
- grafana
- monitoring
- analytics
- metrics
- influxdb
- prometheus
- elasticsearch
- alerting
- data-visualization
- go
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Is Grafana free and open source?
Yes. Grafana is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Grafana with Docker?
Yes. Grafana provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. Our step-by-step deploy guide covers the Compose file, HTTPS and backups.
What are the best alternatives to Grafana?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Grafana include Uptime Kuma, Netdata and Prometheus. Grafana itself is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog and Grafana Cloud.
Is Grafana actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Grafana was on Oct 26, 2026 with 11,777 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v13.2.4, published Oct 13, 2026. It had 2,633 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.