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elasticsearchvsrpi-mqtt-monitor

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

elasticsearchrpi-mqtt-monitor
Score83/10051/100
Rank in category#2 of 41 in Search Engines#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars78 421328
Stars, last 30 days+452—
Stable releases, 12 months328
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 20261.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaPython

Which one should you pick?

elasticsearch scores 83/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

elasticsearch ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for rpi-mqtt-monitor.

If you want the quickest setup, rpi-mqtt-monitor is easier to run; elasticsearch needs more configuration.

elasticsearch is growing faster right now (+452 stars in 30 days).

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