| Price from | Free | $1,500/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Hardware Monitoring Software | 7.7 (#41) | 8.6 (#9) |
| Spec score · Hardware monitoring tools | 7.5 (#49) | 8.6 (#13) |
| Intended users | The maker describes Michka as built for home servers and homelabs, including use on small rack touchscreens. | The open source edition is described as optimal for personal, small, and simple data pipelines. |
| What it does | Michka is a self-hosted dashboard for monitoring homelabs and servers, showing hardware metrics and operating system services in a browser. | Telegraf is an open-source agent that collects infrastructure, application and device metrics and sends them to destinations through plugins. |
