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Cachet vs thanos
Cachet has 15,263 GitHub stars, 1,631 forks, 7 open issues and last shipped yesterday. thanos has 14,266 stars, 2,404 forks, 908 open issues and last shipped 4 days ago. Cachet leads on adoption by 7% (15,263 vs 14,266 stars). Cachet is written in PHP under a custom or non-standard licence; thanos is written in Go under Apache-2.0. Cachet has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, thanos 17%. Cachet was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Cachet | thanos | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 15K | ★ 14K |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | PHP | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-30 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.6K | ⑂ 2.4K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Cachet if
- You weight community size — 15K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick thanos if
- You want the thanos feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and thanos fits your workflow better
About Cachet
Cachet, the open source self hosted status page system. Cachet 3.x Announcement For more information on the Cachet rebuild and our plans for 3.x, you can read the announcement here. Requirements PHP 8.3 or later Composer A supported database: MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite Installation, Upgrades and Documentation You can find documentation at Here are some useful quick links: Installing Cachet Demo To test out the v3 demo, you can log in to the Cachet dashboard with the following credentials: Email: test@test.com Password: test123 Note The demo automatically resets every 30 minutes. Sponsors Security…
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About thanos
📢 ThanosCon happened on 19th March 2024 as a co located half day on KubeCon EU in Paris. Overview Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments. Thanos is a CNCF Incubating project. Thanos leverages the Prometheus 2.0 storage format to cost efficiently store historical metric data in any object storage while retaining fast query latencies. Additionally, it provides a global query view across all Prometheus installations and can merge data from Prometheus HA pairs on…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Cachet or thanos more popular?
Cachet has 15,263 GitHub stars and thanos has 14,266. Cachet has the larger community by that measure.
Are Cachet and thanos free?
Both are open source. Cachet has no licence declared in this registry, and thanos is licensed under Apache-2.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Cachet and thanos?
Cachet is written in PHP and thanos in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Cachet or thanos?
Choose Cachet if you want the larger community (15,263 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose thanos if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.