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telegraf vs Keep
telegraf has 17,807 GitHub stars, 5,839 forks, 449 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Keep has 12,331 stars, 1,508 forks, 609 open issues and last shipped 5 days ago. telegraf leads on adoption by 44% (17,807 vs 12,331 stars). telegraf is written in Go under MIT; Keep is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence. telegraf has attracted 33% as many forks as stars, Keep 12%. telegraf 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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Side by side
| telegraf | Keep | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 18K | ★ 12K |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | Go | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.8K | ⑂ 1.5K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick telegraf if
- You weight community size — 18K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Keep if
- You want the Keep feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and Keep fits your workflow better
About telegraf
Telegraf is a Go based, MIT licensed open source agent that collects, processes, aggregates, and writes metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data, and it is aimed at engineers who run their own monitoring and observability pipelines.
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About Keep
Keep is the open source AIOps and alert management platform: a Python based single pane of glass that unifies alerts and incidents, deduplicates and enriches them, and automates response through declarative YAML workflows, aimed at the SRE, platform and on call teams that operate many monitoring tools at once.
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Frequently asked questions
Is telegraf or Keep more popular?
telegraf has 17,807 GitHub stars and Keep has 12,331. telegraf has the larger community by that measure.
Are telegraf and Keep free?
Both are open source. telegraf is licensed under MIT, and Keep has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between telegraf and Keep?
telegraf is written in Go and Keep in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, telegraf or Keep?
Choose telegraf if you want the larger community (17,807 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Keep if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.