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logstashvsWorld Monitor

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

logstashWorld Monitor
Score72/10086/100
Rank in category#1 of 8 in Data Pipeline#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars14 96989 721
Stars, last 30 days+18+2 382
Stable releases, 12 months3217
Latest releasev9.5.5 · 6 Oct 2026v2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 72/100 for logstash, so it is the safer default.

logstash ships more often: 32 stable releases in the past year, against 17 for World Monitor.

If you want the quickest setup, logstash is easier to run; World Monitor needs more configuration.

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 382 stars in 30 days).

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