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elasticsearchvsopnsense-exporter

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

elasticsearchopnsense-exporter
Score83/10044/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#80 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars78 420274
Stars, last 30 days+451—
Stable releases, 12 months327
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 2026v0.0.19 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageJavaGo

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 83/100 against 44/100 for opnsense-exporter, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for opnsense-exporter.

If you want the quickest setup, opnsense-exporter is easier to run; elasticsearch needs more configuration.

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+451 stars in 30 days).

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