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gatusvsvanilla-cookbook

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

gatusvanilla-cookbook
Score76/10046/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars12 436158
Stars, last 30 days+282+0
Stable releases, 12 months1013
Latest releasev5.38.0 · 28 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

gatus scores 76/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for gatus.

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

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