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cephvsTraceRoot

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

cephTraceRoot
Score78/10058/100
Rank in category#1 of 7 in Distributed Storage#11 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars17 1781 148
Stars, last 30 days+107+36
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v1.3.3 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherOther
Main languageCTypescript

Which one should you pick?

ceph scores 78/100 against 58/100 for TraceRoot, so it is the safer default.

TraceRoot ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for ceph.

ceph is growing faster right now (+107 stars in 30 days).

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