Grafana vs Prometheus

Comprehensive side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and metrics

Feature

Grafana

Monitoring

Prometheus

Monitoring

Side-by-side comparison of developer tools
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database
GitHub Stars
⭐ 72,959
⭐ 63,375
Contributors
👥 2,974
👥 1,357
Pricing
✓ Free
Enterprise: Contact sales
✓ Free
Enterprise: Contact sales
Languages
TypeScript
Go
Features
  • • Alerting
  • • Analytics
  • • Business Intelligence
  • • Dashboard
  • • Data Visualization
  • • Alerting
  • • Graphing
  • • Hacktoberfest
  • • Metrics
  • • Monitoring
Integrations
  • • prometheus
  • • grafana
  • • elasticsearch
  • • prometheus
Momentum Score
88/100 (stable)
88/100 (stable)
Community Health
95/100 (excellent)
94/100 (excellent)
Maturity Index
89/100 (mature)
80/100 (established)
Innovation Score
95/100 (pioneering)
87/100 (pioneering)
Risk Score (higher is safer)
94/100 (minimal)
73/100 (low)
Developer Experience
78/100 (good)
65/100 (fair)
Links
🌐 Visit Website View on GitHub
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Grafana Strengths

  • ✓ More popular (72,959 stars)
  • ✓ Larger community (2,974 contributors)

Prometheus Strengths

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Data source: GitHub API

Last updated: 4/5/2026