trickster
The premium Open Source alternative to Grafana Enterprise (Query Caching)
🎯 Best for:Organizations with high-traffic Grafana dashboards and slow TSDB queries.
What is trickster?
Replaces standard HTTP caches for Prometheus and InfluxDB. Implements delta-proxying to fetch only missing data points from the backend, reducing query load by up to 90%.
Tech Stack
GoMonitoring & Logs
Why trickster?
- • Significant latency reduction
- • Step-boundary alignment
- • Multi-backend support
Limitations
- • Memory intensive
- • Configuration complexity
- • Limited to HTTP backends
3/5/2026
Last Update
184
Forks
48
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Grafana Enterprise (Query Caching))
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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