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Prometheus vs martin
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars, 10,969 forks, 890 open issues and last shipped yesterday. martin has 4,040 stars, 412 forks, 52 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Prometheus leads on adoption by 1,556% (66,906 vs 4,040 stars). Prometheus is written in Go under Apache-2.0; martin is written in Rust under Apache-2.0. Prometheus has attracted 16% as many forks as stars, martin 10%. Prometheus 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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| Prometheus | martin | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 67K | ★ 4.0K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Go | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 11K | ⑂ 412 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Prometheus if
- You weight community size — 67K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick martin if
- You want the martin feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and martin fits your workflow better
About Prometheus
Prometheus Visit prometheus.io for the full documentation, examples and guides. [ ][quay] [ ][hub] Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts when specified conditions are observed. The features that distinguish Prometheus from other metrics and monitoring systems are: A multi dimensional data model (time series defined by metric name and set of key/value dimensions) PromQL, a powerful and flexible query language to…
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About martin
Martin is a tile server and a set of tools able to generate vector tiles on the fly from large PostgreSQL databases and GeoJSON files, and serve tiles from PMTiles and MBTiles files. It can also serve vector tiles from GeoParquet files via DuckDB (unstable). Martin optimizes for speed and heavy traffic, and is written in Rust. Features Serve vector tiles from PostGIS databases, automatically discovering compatible tables and functions PMTile, both local files and over HTTP MBTile files GeoJSON files, converted to vector tiles on the fly GeoParquet files via DuckDB, converted to vector tiles on the fly (unstable)…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Prometheus or martin more popular?
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars and martin has 4,040. Prometheus has the larger community by that measure.
Are Prometheus and martin free?
Both are open source. Prometheus is licensed under Apache-2.0 and martin under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Prometheus and martin?
Prometheus is written in Go and martin 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, Prometheus or martin?
Choose Prometheus if you want the larger community (66,906 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose martin if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.