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HealthchecksvsMQTTX Web

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

HealthchecksMQTTX Web
Score73/10067/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring#3 of 10 in IoT
GitHub stars10 4645 086
Stars, last 30 days+106+22
Stable releases, 12 months123
Latest releasev5.0.3 · 27 Oct 2026v1.13.2 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseApache-2.0
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Healthchecks scores 73/100 against 67/100 for MQTTX Web, so it is the safer default.

Healthchecks ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for MQTTX Web.

If you want the quickest setup, MQTTX Web is easier to run; Healthchecks needs more configuration.

Healthchecks is growing faster right now (+106 stars in 30 days).

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