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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Your team could be burning cash. Switching to trickster instantly boosts your runway.

Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Grafana Enterprise (Query Caching))
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
SAVE 100%

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