WLED VS Grafana

Compare WLED vs Grafana and see what are their differences.

WLED

Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi! (by Aircoookie)

Grafana

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more. (by grafana)
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WLED Grafana
599 379
13,823 60,196
- 1.3%
9.5 10.0
4 days ago 7 days ago
C++ TypeScript
MIT License GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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WLED

Posts with mentions or reviews of WLED. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

Grafana

Posts with mentions or reviews of Grafana. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WLED and Grafana you can also consider the following projects:

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

Thingsboard - Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.

FastLED - The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino. Please direct questions/requests for help to the FastLED Reddit community: http://fastled.io/r We'd like to use github "issues" just for tracking library bugs / enhancements.

Apache Superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/superset]

NightDriverStrip - NightDriver client for ESP32

Heimdall - An Application dashboard and launcher

OpenRGB

Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

LedFx - LedFx is a network based LED effect controller with support for advanced real-time audio effects! LedFx can control multiple devices and works great with cheap ESP8266 nodes allowing for cost effectvice syncronized effects across your entire house!

Thingspeak - ThingSpeak is an open source “Internet of Things” application and API to store and retrieve data from things using HTTP over the Internet or via a Local Area Network. With ThingSpeak, you can create sensor logging applications, location tracking applications, and a social network of things with status updates.

hyperion.ng - The successor to Hyperion aka Hyperion Next Generation

uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool