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Grafana vs clockwork
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars, 14,905 forks, 3,326 open issues and last shipped yesterday. clockwork has 5,946 stars, 332 forks, 39 open issues and last shipped 2 months ago. Grafana leads on adoption by 1,206% (77,638 vs 5,946 stars). Grafana is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0; clockwork is written in PHP under MIT. Grafana has attracted 19% as many forks as stars, clockwork 6%. Grafana 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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| Grafana | clockwork | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 78K | ★ 5.9K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-08-29 |
| Forks | ⑂ 15K | ⑂ 332 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Grafana if
- You weight community size — 78K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick clockwork if
- You want the clockwork feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and clockwork fits your workflow better
About Grafana
The open source platform for monitoring and observability Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data driven culture: Visualizations: Fast and flexible client side graphs with a multitude of options. Panel plugins offer many different ways to visualize metrics and logs. Dynamic Dashboards: Create dynamic & reusable dashboards with template variables that appear as dropdowns at the top of the dashboard. Explore Metrics: Explore your data through ad hoc queries and dynamic…
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About clockwork
Clockwork is a development tool for PHP available right in your browser. Clockwork gives you an insight into your application runtime including request data, performance metrics, log entries, database queries, cache queries, redis commands, dispatched events, queued jobs, rendered views and more for HTTP requests, commands, queue jobs and tests. This repository contains the server side component of Clockwork. Check out on the Clockwork website for details. Installation Install the Clockwork library via Composer. Congratulations, you are done! To enable more features like commands or queue jobs profiling, publish…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Grafana or clockwork more popular?
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars and clockwork has 5,946. Grafana has the larger community by that measure.
Are Grafana and clockwork free?
Both are open source. Grafana is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and clockwork under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Grafana and clockwork?
Grafana is written in TypeScript and clockwork in PHP. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Grafana or clockwork?
Choose Grafana if you want the larger community (77,638 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose clockwork if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.