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budibasevsopenobserve

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

budibaseopenobserve
Score74/10078/100
Rank in category#2 of 17 in Low Code#9 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars28 36322 562
Stars, last 30 days+63+445
Stable releases, 12 months7522
Latest releasev3.51.0-cloud.7 · 21 Oct 2026v1.1.2 · 20 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

openobserve scores 78/100 against 74/100 for budibase, so it is the safer default.

budibase ships more often: 75 stable releases in the past year, against 22 for openobserve.

openobserve is growing faster right now (+445 stars in 30 days).

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