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Blackbox exportervsKavita

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

Blackbox exporterKavita
Score70/10073/100
Rank in category#3 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 14 in Comics
GitHub stars5 92311 969
Stars, last 30 days+17+233
Stable releases, 12 months38
Latest releasev0.29.1 · 21 Oct 2026v0.9.1.4 · 2 Sept 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoC#

Which one should you pick?

Kavita scores 73/100 against 70/100 for Blackbox exporter, so it is the safer default.

Kavita ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for Blackbox exporter.

Kavita is growing faster right now (+233 stars in 30 days).

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