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

elasticsearchprometheus-qbittorrent-exporter
Score83/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#73 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars78 420197
Stars, last 30 days+451—
Stable releases, 12 months322
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 20261.7.1 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaPython

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 83/100 against 46/100 for prometheus-qbittorrent-exporter, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for prometheus-qbittorrent-exporter.

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

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

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