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Grafana vs moosestack
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars, 14,905 forks, 3,326 open issues and last shipped yesterday. moosestack has 591 stars, 32 forks, 1 open issues and last shipped 6 days ago. Grafana leads on adoption by 13,037% (77,638 vs 591 stars). Grafana is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0; moosestack is written in Rust under MIT. Grafana has attracted 19% as many forks as stars, moosestack 5%. Grafana was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (analytics, metrics), 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 | moosestack | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 78K | ★ 591 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-28 |
| Forks | ⑂ 15K | ⑂ 32 |
| 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 moosestack if
- You want the moosestack feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and moosestack 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 moosestack
[!IMPORTANT] MooseStack has reached end of life and is no longer actively maintained. As users, we loved the idea of the MooseStack harness. But as coding agents became our primary users over the last couple of years, results from the Agent Experience Platform (AXP) made it clear that they would rather free solo on the underlying tools than use our product. We cannot in good faith keep building tools that make their work harder. Thank you to everyone who supported MooseStack and helped us test the idea. You can learn more about AXP in the docs. MooseStack The developer agent harness for ClickHouse — MooseStack…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Grafana or moosestack more popular?
Grafana has 77,638 GitHub stars and moosestack has 591. Grafana has the larger community by that measure.
Are Grafana and moosestack free?
Both are open source. Grafana is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and moosestack under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Grafana and moosestack?
Grafana is written in TypeScript and moosestack in Rust. 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 moosestack?
Choose Grafana if you want the larger community (77,638 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose moosestack if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.