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drawdbvsmqtt-exporter

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

drawdbmqtt-exporter
Score80/10048/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#67 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars40 160168
Stars, last 30 days+469—
Stable releases, 12 months06
Latest release—mqtt-exporter-0.1.4 · 11 May 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 48/100 for mqtt-exporter, so it is the safer default.

mqtt-exporter ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

drawdb is growing faster right now (+469 stars in 30 days).

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