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bettercapvsprom-alertmanager

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

bettercapprom-alertmanager
Score76/10073/100
Rank in category#1 of 15 in Network Security#14 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars20 2128 676
Stars, last 30 days+188+49
Stable releases, 12 months211
Latest releasev2.41.7 · 11 May 2026v0.34.1 · 17 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageGoGo

Which one should you pick?

bettercap scores 76/100 against 73/100 for prom-alertmanager, so it is the safer default.

prom-alertmanager ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for bettercap.

bettercap is growing faster right now (+188 stars in 30 days).

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