Monitoring / Analytics / Infra

Grafana on VPS

Open observability and data visualization platform for metrics logs and traces

GitHub stars
77463
License
AGPL-3.0
Docker
Yes
GPU
Not required

Requirements

Minimum and recommended VPS specs

Badges are attached to each value. An estimate is never presented as an official project requirement.

Grafana hardware requirements
ResourceMinimumRecommended
RAM512MB Official2GB Estimated
CPU1 Official2 Estimated
Disk5GB EstimatedNot stated Not stated

Disk figures describe the application footprint recorded in the dataset. Personal media, documents, backups and other user data can require substantially more storage.

RunOnVPS sizing suggestion

Suggested VPS tier

2 GB RAM tier

This is our sizing suggestion, derived from Grafana’s recommended RAM of 2GB. It is not an official requirement and it does not guarantee that every workload, plug-in set or media library will fit comfortably.

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Deployment

Docker & GPU

Docker support: Yes

GPU: Not required

Check the source notes below before assuming a GPU, transcoding workload or machine-learning feature is included in the baseline deployment.

Commercial alternative

What it can replace

Grafana Cloud

Grafana is catalogued here as a self-hosted alternative to Grafana Cloud. Feature parity varies, so compare your required workflow before migrating.

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Source check

Important notes

Stars/license checked 2026-10-24. Official Install Grafana docs (latest): 'Minimum recommended memory: 512 MB' and 'Minimum recommended CPU: 1 core' — min_ram/min_cpu are official; 官方未标明磁盘,min_disk 与 rec 配置为估算. Note Grafana itself stores no metrics — a full monitoring stack also needs a data source such as Prometheus, whose requirements are counted separately. Official Docker image (grafana/grafana) per Grafana docs.

Data source: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/installation/

Project repository: https://github.com/grafana/grafana

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