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

Healthchecksmqtt-exporter
Score73/10048/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#67 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars10 466168
Stars, last 30 days+108—
Stable releases, 12 months126
Latest releasev5.0.3 · 27 Oct 2026mqtt-exporter-0.1.4 · 11 May 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseMIT
Main languagePythonPython

Which one should you pick?

Healthchecks scores 73/100 against 48/100 for mqtt-exporter, so it is the safer default.

Healthchecks ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for mqtt-exporter.

If you want the quickest setup, mqtt-exporter is easier to run; Healthchecks needs more configuration.

Healthchecks is growing faster right now (+108 stars in 30 days).

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