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Blackbox exportervsvue-salt-rim

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

Blackbox exportervue-salt-rim
Score70/10051/100
Rank in category#3 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#9 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars5 922151
Stars, last 30 days+16+0
Stable releases, 12 months319
Latest releasev0.29.1 · 21 Oct 2026v5.9.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageGoVue

Which one should you pick?

Blackbox exporter scores 70/100 against 51/100 for vue-salt-rim, so it is the safer default.

vue-salt-rim ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for Blackbox exporter.

If you want the quickest setup, Blackbox exporter is easier to run; vue-salt-rim needs more configuration.

Blackbox exporter is growing faster right now (+16 stars in 30 days).

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