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cadvisorvsZulip

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

cadvisorZulip
Score72/10082/100
Rank in category#15 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars19 50526 133
Stars, last 30 days+65+190
Stable releases, 12 months156
Latest releasev0.60.6 · 18 Sept 202612.3 · 21 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

Zulip scores 82/100 against 72/100 for cadvisor, so it is the safer default.

cadvisor ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for Zulip.

Zulip is growing faster right now (+190 stars in 30 days).

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