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Kavitavsrpi-mqtt-monitor

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

Kavitarpi-mqtt-monitor
Score73/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 14 in Comics#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars11 968328
Stars, last 30 days+232+0
Stable releases, 12 months88
Latest releasev0.9.1.4 · 2 Sept 20261.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageC#Python

Which one should you pick?

Kavita scores 73/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

If you want the quickest setup, Kavita is easier to run; rpi-mqtt-monitor needs more configuration.

Kavita is growing faster right now (+232 stars in 30 days).

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