Evidence vs Grafana
A side-by-side comparison of Evidence and Grafana — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | Code-based BI: build data reports and dashboards with SQL and Markdown | Observability and analytics dashboards for metrics, logs, and time series |
| Category | BI & Dashboards | BI & Dashboards |
| Replaces | Tableau, Looker, Power BI | Tableau, Power BI, Datadog |
| GitHub stars | 6.4k | 74k |
| Language | JavaScript | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | Docker Manual One-Click | One-Click Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 4 months ago | 4 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
