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gatusvszookeeper

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

gatuszookeeper
Score76/10073/100
Rank in category#1 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#1 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars12 43412 827
Stars, last 30 days+289+17
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev5.38.0 · 28 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoJava

Which one should you pick?

gatus scores 76/100 against 73/100 for zookeeper, so it is the safer default.

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

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

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

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