Grafana vs Metabase
A side-by-side comparison of Grafana and Metabase — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | Observability and analytics dashboards for metrics, logs, and time series | Easy-to-use open-source BI and embedded analytics for everyone |
| Category | BI & Dashboards | BI & Dashboards |
| Replaces | Tableau, Power BI, Datadog | Tableau, Power BI, Looker |
| GitHub stars | 74k | 47k |
| Language | TypeScript | Clojure |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | One-Click Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual | One-Click Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 4 days ago | 5 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
