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huginn vs Grafana Loki
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Grafana Loki has 29,111 stars, 4,169 forks, 1,620 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 73% (50,269 vs 29,111 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Grafana Loki is written in Go under AGPL-3.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Grafana Loki 14%. Grafana Loki 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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| huginn | Grafana Loki | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 29K |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 4.2K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick huginn if
- You weight community size — 50K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Grafana Loki if
- You want the Grafana Loki feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and Grafana Loki fits your workflow better
About huginn
What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on…
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About Grafana Loki
Loki: like Prometheus, but for logs. Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream. Compared to other log aggregation systems, Loki: does not do full text indexing on logs. By storing compressed, unstructured logs and only indexing metadata, Loki is simpler to operate and cheaper to run. indexes and groups log streams using the same labels you’re already using with Prometheus, enabling you to…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Grafana Loki more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and Grafana Loki has 29,111. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Grafana Loki free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and Grafana Loki under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and Grafana Loki?
huginn is written in Ruby and Grafana Loki 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, huginn or Grafana Loki?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Grafana Loki if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.