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gatusvsTidal Echo

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

gatusTidal Echo
Score76/10047/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#61 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars12 436329
Stars, last 30 days+282+0
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev5.38.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoHTML

Which one should you pick?

gatus scores 76/100 against 47/100 for Tidal Echo, so it is the safer default.

gatus ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Tidal Echo.

If you want the quickest setup, gatus is easier to run; Tidal Echo needs more configuration.

gatus is growing faster right now (+282 stars in 30 days).

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