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drawdbvsprom-alertmanager

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

drawdbprom-alertmanager
Score80/10073/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Diagramming#14 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars40 1558 676
Stars, last 30 days+464+49
Stable releases, 12 months011
Latest release—v0.34.1 · 17 Sept 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaScriptGo

Which one should you pick?

drawdb scores 80/100 against 73/100 for prom-alertmanager, so it is the safer default.

prom-alertmanager ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for drawdb.

If you want the quickest setup, drawdb is easier to run; prom-alertmanager needs more configuration.

drawdb is growing faster right now (+464 stars in 30 days).

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