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harnessvsUptime-Kuma-Web-API

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

harnessUptime-Kuma-Web-API
Score80/10039/100
Rank in category#3 of 28 in CI/CD#12 of 13 in API
GitHub stars38 756282
Stars, last 30 days+322+0
Stable releases, 12 months60
Latest releasev2.28.2 · 20 Apr 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0—
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

harness scores 80/100 against 39/100 for Uptime-Kuma-Web-API, so it is the safer default.

harness ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Uptime-Kuma-Web-API.

If you want the quickest setup, harness is easier to run; Uptime-Kuma-Web-API needs more configuration.

harness is growing faster right now (+322 stars in 30 days).

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