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GoAccessvsShinken

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

GoAccessShinken
Score75/10053/100
Rank in category#1 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#17 of 51 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars21 0941 135
Stars, last 30 days+146—
Stable releases, 12 months00
Latest release——
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageCPython

Which one should you pick?

GoAccess scores 75/100 against 53/100 for Shinken, so it is the safer default.

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

GoAccess is growing faster right now (+146 stars in 30 days).

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