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6 self-hosted Chronosphere alternatives

Chronosphere is a cloud-native observability platform for metrics that provides Prometheus-compatible ingestion, high-scale metrics storage and querying, alerting, and cost-control features to monitor large distributed systems and reduce alert noise.

Alternatives to Chronosphere

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and time-series database for collecting metrics, querying with PromQL, and alerting on system and application health.

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65.8k stars10.8k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool providing a terminal dashboard, web UI, and REST/XML-RPC APIs for local or remote monitoring and exporting metrics.

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33.4k stars1.8k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Fast, resource-efficient time series database compatible with Prometheus and Grafana, for scalable monitoring and long-term metrics storage.

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17.6k stars1.7k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring and observability platform for networks, servers, VMs, applications, and cloud infrastructure, with alerting and dashboards.

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6.3k stars1.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Parseable ingests, analyzes, and extracts insights from MELT telemetry data with predictive analytics and a unified SQL/NL querying interface.

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2.4k stars171 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Lightweight Prometheus exporter that exposes metrics from the *arr suite (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc.) for monitoring and Grafana dashboards.

417 stars18 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Chronosphere actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 6 of 6 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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