Analytics and monitoring

Rocking Dashboards alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

grafana/grafana76,185AGPL-3.0General-purpose dashboard and visualization platform for time series, logs, and metrics with many data source integrations.Open on GitHub openobserve/openobserve20,765AGPL-3.0Open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring with a single-binary deployment.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished UX/visual polish and multi-dashboard product polish
Third-party data agreements and enterprise SLAs
Scale-tested ingestion and high-availability hosting
Ongoing product support, community features, and continuity of curated metrics

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Rocking Dashboards, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.