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Grafana vs MangoHud
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars, 14,905 forks, 3,326 open issues and last shipped yesterday. MangoHud has 9,220 stars, 449 forks, 336 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Grafana leads on adoption by 742% (77,638 vs 9,220 stars). Grafana is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0; MangoHud is written in C under MIT. Grafana has attracted 19% as many forks as stars, MangoHud 5%. Grafana was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (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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| Grafana | MangoHud | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 78K | ★ 9.2K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | C |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-01 |
| Forks | ⑂ 15K | ⑂ 449 |
| 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 MangoHud if
- You want the MangoHud feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C
- You evaluated both and MangoHud 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 MangoHud
MangoHud A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. MangoHud Installation Build From Source Dependencies Building with build script Installation Pre packaged Binaries GitHub releases Arch based distributions Debian, Ubuntu Fedora Solus openSUSE Flatpak Normal usage OpenGL Hud configuration Environment Variables: MANGOHUD CONFIG , MANGOHUD CONFIGFILE , and MANGOHUD PRESETSFILE Vsync OpenGL Vsync Vulkan Vsync Keybindings Workarounds FPS logging Online visualization: FlightlessMango.com Local visualization: mangoplot Metrics support by GPU vendor/driver Installation Build…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Grafana or MangoHud more popular?
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars and MangoHud has 9,220. Grafana has the larger community by that measure.
Are Grafana and MangoHud free?
Both are open source. Grafana is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and MangoHud under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Grafana and MangoHud?
Grafana is written in TypeScript and MangoHud 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 MangoHud?
Choose Grafana if you want the larger community (77,638 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose MangoHud if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.