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Grafana vs Coroot
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars, 14,905 forks, 3,326 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Coroot has 7,999 stars, 416 forks, 117 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Grafana leads on adoption by 871% (77,638 vs 7,999 stars). Grafana is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0; Coroot is written in Go under Apache-2.0. Grafana has attracted 19% as many forks as stars, Coroot 5%. Grafana was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 4 topic tags (alerting, dashboard, metrics, monitoring), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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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Side by side
| Grafana | Coroot | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 78K | ★ 8.0K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 15K | ⑂ 416 |
| 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 Coroot if
- You want the Coroot 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 Coroot 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 Coroot
Features Installation Documentation Community & Support Live demo Coroot Enterprise Open source observability augmented with actionable insights Collecting metrics, logs, and traces alone doesn't make your applications observable. Coroot turns that data into actionable insights for you! Features Zero instrumentation observability Metrics, logs, traces, and profiles are gathered automatically by using eBPF Coroot provides you with a Service Map that covers 100% of your system with no blind spots Predefined inspections audit each application without any configuration Application Health Summary Easily understand…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Grafana or Coroot more popular?
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars and Coroot has 7,999. Grafana has the larger community by that measure.
Are Grafana and Coroot free?
Both are open source. Grafana is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Coroot under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Grafana and Coroot?
Grafana is written in TypeScript and Coroot 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, Grafana or Coroot?
Choose Grafana if you want the larger community (77,638 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose Coroot if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.