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Grafana vs FASTER
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars, 14,905 forks, 3,326 open issues and last shipped yesterday. FASTER has 6,637 stars, 592 forks, 36 open issues and last shipped 15 days ago. Grafana leads on adoption by 1,070% (77,638 vs 6,637 stars). Grafana is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0; FASTER is written in C# under MIT. Grafana has attracted 19% as many forks as stars, FASTER 9%. 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 | FASTER | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 78K | ★ 6.6K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | C# |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 15K | ⑂ 592 |
| 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 FASTER if
- You want the FASTER feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and FASTER 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 FASTER
[!IMPORTANT] This repository is no longer actively maintained. We encourage users to look at Garnet — this project evolves FASTER into a full fledged remote cache store with strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, and more. Garnet's storage engine, Tsavorite , is a highly optimized and evolved fork of FASTER. Introduction Managing large application state easily, resiliently, and with high performance is one of the hardest problems in the cloud today. The FASTER project offers two artifacts to help tackle this problem. FASTER Log is a high performance concurrent persistent…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Grafana or FASTER more popular?
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars and FASTER has 6,637. Grafana has the larger community by that measure.
Are Grafana and FASTER free?
Both are open source. Grafana is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and FASTER under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Grafana and FASTER?
Grafana is written in TypeScript and FASTER in C#. 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 FASTER?
Choose Grafana if you want the larger community (77,638 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose FASTER if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.