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hastic-servervsprometheus

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

hastic-serverprometheus
Score39/10090/100
Rank in category#87 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars33166 847
Stars, last 30 days—+651
Stable releases, 12 months016
Latest release—v3.15.1 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

prometheus scores 90/100 against 39/100 for hastic-server, so it is the safer default.

prometheus ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for hastic-server.

If you want the quickest setup, prometheus is easier to run; hastic-server needs more configuration.

prometheus is growing faster right now (+651 stars in 30 days).

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