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Grafana vs Checkcle
Pick Checkcle if the job is HTTP/TCP uptime and a status page (the published Pingdom stack). Pick Grafana OSS if you need dashboards and alerting on metrics you already scrape — not Grafana Cloud.
Facts checked 17 Oct 2026. License, language, and GitHub activity come from the catalog or the project's own repo. "Not in the catalog row" means the public catalog dump does not store that number.
Grafana in the catalog Checkcle in the catalogStart on Railway
How they compare
| Grafana | Checkcle | |
|---|---|---|
| License | AGPL-3.0 on grafana/grafana (OSS). Catalog row is grafana.com (Cloud marketing). source | MIT License (catalog) source |
| Language | TypeScript (grafana/grafana) source | Go (catalog) source |
| GitHub activity | 77,328 stars, pushed 17 Oct 2026 (not in the catalog row) source | 3,305 stars in the catalog source |
| Self-host | OSS dashboards and alerting. Pair with Prometheus. Do not deploy Grafana Cloud and call it self-host. | HTTP/TCP checks and a status page. One Go box. |
| Best for | Graphs and alerting you host. | Uptime checks and a status page. |
Self-hosting and resource needs
Checkcle is Easy: Go uptime, /stacks/checkcle-monitoring. Grafana OSS is Medium: dashboards, usually with Prometheus (Prometheus itself is not a Crew catalog row). The catalog Grafana row is grafana.com (Cloud marketing); this page means Grafana OSS, AGPL on grafana/grafana, as the observability stack already states. SigNoz is named on stack pages but is not a listed catalog row.
FAQ
- Grafana OSS or Grafana Cloud?
- This page is OSS you run. Grafana Cloud is the hosted meter /replace/grafana-cloud leaves.
- Where is SigNoz?
- Named on stack pages. Not a listed Crew catalog row, so there is no Grafana vs SigNoz page.
- Where is Uptime Kuma?
- In the catalog. See /compare/checkcle-vs-uptime-kuma and /compare/uptime-kuma-vs-gatus.
- How do I deploy it?
- Start with /stacks/checkcle-monitoring for uptime, then /stacks/grafana-observability if you need dashboards.
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