Grafana vs Lightdash
A side-by-side comparison of Grafana and Lightdash — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | Observability and analytics dashboards for metrics, logs, and time series | BI layer on top of your dbt project with a built-in semantic layer |
| Category | BI & Dashboards | BI & Dashboards |
| Replaces | Tableau, Power BI, Datadog | Looker, Tableau, Power BI |
| GitHub stars | 74k | 5.9k |
| Language | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 3/5 Moderate |
| Deploy options | One-Click Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 4 days ago | 3 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
