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gatusvsnginx-love

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

gatusnginx-love
Score76/10050/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars12 434312
Stars, last 30 days+289—
Stable releases, 12 months101
Latest releasev5.38.0 · 28 Oct 2026v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

gatus scores 76/100 against 50/100 for nginx-love, so it is the safer default.

gatus ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for nginx-love.

If you want the quickest setup, gatus is easier to run; nginx-love needs more configuration.

gatus is growing faster right now (+289 stars in 30 days).

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