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etcdvssysmon

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

etcdsysmon
Score83/10041/100
Rank in category#2 of 38 in Databases#85 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars52 433201
Stars, last 30 days+126—
Stable releases, 12 months120
Latest releasev3.7.3 · 22 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoCSS

Which one should you pick?

etcd scores 83/100 against 41/100 for sysmon, so it is the safer default.

etcd ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for sysmon.

etcd is growing faster right now (+126 stars in 30 days).

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