# Grafana

> Grafana is a free, open-source app you can self-host in the monitoring & status pages category. Dashboards and visualization for metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, Loki and dozens of other sources. It has 77,096 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and ships a Docker image. It is a self-hosted alternative to Datadog and Grafana Cloud.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/grafana/grafana |
| Website | https://grafana.com/ |
| GitHub stars | 77,096 |
| Forks | 14,816 |
| Open issues | 2,671 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| License type | Open source |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Docker image | Yes |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Categories | Monitoring & Status Pages, Personal Dashboards |
| Commits, last 12 months | 11,362 |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Latest release | v13.2.3 (Sep 29, 2026) |
| Created | Dec 11, 2013 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained |
| Archived | No |

Topics: grafana, monitoring, analytics, metrics, influxdb, prometheus, elasticsearch, alerting, data-visualization, go

## Install

Step-by-step deploy guide: [How to self-host Grafana with Docker Compose](https://appsgit.com/guides/grafana) (beginner, about 10 minutes).

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## Grafana replaces

- [Datadog alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/datadog): A cloud monitoring platform for metrics, logs and traces.
- [Grafana Cloud alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/grafana-cloud): A hosted observability stack for metrics, logs and traces.

## Comparisons

- [Grafana vs Metabase](https://appsgit.com/compare/grafana-vs-metabase): Pick Grafana for real-time dashboards over metrics, logs and time-series data; pick Metabase for business intelligence questions over SQL databases that non-technical users can answer.

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