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harnessvsLAN Sheriff

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

harnessLAN Sheriff
Score80/10047/100
Rank in category#3 of 28 in CI/CD#31 of 48 in Network Monitoring
GitHub stars38 753156
Stars, last 30 days+319+0
Stable releases, 12 months63
Latest releasev2.28.2 · 20 Apr 2026v1.0.2 · 19 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoGo

Which one should you pick?

harness scores 80/100 against 47/100 for LAN Sheriff, so it is the safer default.

harness ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for LAN Sheriff.

If you want the quickest setup, harness is easier to run; LAN Sheriff needs more configuration.

harness is growing faster right now (+319 stars in 30 days).

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