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elasticsearchvsFail2Ban-Report

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

elasticsearchFail2Ban-Report
Score84/10043/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#59 of 78 in Security
GitHub stars78 427303
Stars, last 30 days+447+0
Stable releases, 12 months320
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaPHP

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 84/100 against 43/100 for Fail2Ban-Report, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Fail2Ban-Report.

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+447 stars in 30 days).

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