Plausible Analytics
99 · HealthyCookie-free, privacy-focused web analytics with a single-page dashboard.
Open source Analytics
Unleash
99 · HealthyFeature flag service for gradual rollouts, targeting rules and kill switches, with SDKs for most languages.
Apache Superset
97 · HealthyData exploration and dashboarding platform from the Apache Software Foundation.
Matomo
95 · HealthyLong-running web analytics platform with full data ownership and a plugin marketplace.
PostHog
94 · HealthyProduct analytics suite with event tracking, session replay, feature flags and experiments.
Lightdash
94 · HealthyBI tool that turns a dbt project into a semantic layer for self-serve dashboards.
OpenReplay
93 · HealthySession replay and product analytics you can run on your own infrastructure.
GrowthBook
91 · HealthyFeature flags and A/B testing that read experiment results straight from your own data warehouse.
Grafana
90 · HealthyDashboards and alerting over metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, Loki, SQL databases and many other sources.
Deepnote
89 · HealthyData notebook for Python, SQL and R with interactive blocks, database connections and an AI assistant, runnable locally.
Metabase
88 · HealthyBusiness intelligence tool for asking questions of your database and sharing dashboards.
Evidence
85 · HealthyBuild reports and dashboards as code from SQL queries and Markdown, published as a fast static site.
Redash
78 · StableWrite SQL against dozens of data sources, then turn the results into charts, dashboards and scheduled alerts.
OpenPanel
78 · StableWeb and product analytics in one tool: page views, events, funnels, retention and user profiles.
Jitsu
77 · StableEvent collection pipeline that captures events from websites and apps and streams them to your warehouse and tools.
Umami
75 · StableSimple, privacy-friendly web analytics that runs on PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Swetrix
69 · StableCookie-free website analytics with built-in error tracking and page performance monitoring.
Rybbit
61 · StableCookie-free web analytics with real-time dashboards, funnels, goals, session replay and error tracking.
Aptabase
53 · CautionPrivacy-first usage analytics for mobile, desktop and web apps, with small SDKs and no personal data collected.
Source-available and unverified licenses
The code for these is public, but the license is not an OSI open source license, or we have not verified it yet. Check the license notes on each project before relying on it.
Grafana
Dashboards and alerting over metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, Loki, SQL databases and many other sources.
Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 90/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · open source (copyleft) · relicensed stricter in 2021
Features compared
has,doesn't2 features
5/11 Datadog features free in Grafana
Datadog has every feature Grafana has on this list.
✕ doesn't have it · ◐ partly · $ higher plan or paid editionBoth have 5
Headline Datadog features on the Infrastructure Pro + APM plan, and whether Grafana has each in its free, self-hosted edition.
| Feature | DatadogInfrastructure Pro + APM plan | Grafana5 of 11 free |
|---|---|---|
| Datadog has, Grafana doesn't2 | ||
| APM and distributed tracing | Included | PartlyWith Tempo |
| SAML single sign-on | Included | PartlyOAuth and LDAP free; SAML Enterprise |
| Both have5 | ||
| Infrastructure metrics | Included | YesWith Prometheus or Mimir |
| Dashboards | Included | Yes |
| Alerts and monitors | Included | Yes |
| Prebuilt integrations | Included1,000+ integrations | YesData source plugins |
| OpenTelemetry support | Included | Yes |
| Neither has fully4 | ||
| Log management | Higher planPriced separately | PartlyWith Loki |
| Real user monitoring and session replay | Higher planPriced separately | PartlyWith Faro |
| Uptime and synthetic checks | Higher planPriced separately | Partlyk6 free; managed checks in Grafana Cloud |
| Incident management and on-call | Higher planPriced separately | Paid editionGrafana Cloud IRM |
Sources
- Datadog, checked 2026-10-09: datadoghq.com, datadoghq.com
- Grafana, checked 2026-10-09: grafana.com, grafana.com
Flat Rate Deploy
A 25-host team on Datadog Infrastructure Pro + APM pays about $1,150 a month. Grafana on OpenTools costs $39 a month, setup included, so you save $1,111 a month, about $39,996 over three years.
Monthly cost
- Grafana on OpenTools
- $39
- Datadog
$1,150
You save each month
$1,111/mo
97% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $39,996
- In year one
- $13,332
List price checked 7 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 90/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 11466 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight100/100
- Top contributor wrote 10% of the last 97 commits (past 12 months).
- 50 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight60/100
- 94% of all issues are closed (2672 open, 42780 closed) (100/100).
- 10 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (33/100).
License
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · Open source (copyleft)Relicensed 2021
What you need to do
Free for any use, commercial included. If you change the code and people outside your company use it over the network, you must publish your changes under the same license.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
Detected by GitHub as AGPL-3.0.
License history
- Apache-2.0 → AGPL-3.0 · Moved from Apache-2.0 to AGPL-3.0. · commit
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 77k
- Forks
- 15k
- Commits, 12 mo
- 11k
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 50+
- last 11 days ago
- Contributors
- 373
- 50 in last 97 commits
- Open issues
- 2.7k
- 43k closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-09
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into Grafana and reviews of them since 5 October 2026 (older history is still loading). Building something another user asked for earns more. 100 people have points on Grafana in all.
