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LXDvsprom-alertmanager

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

LXDprom-alertmanager
Score70/10073/100
Rank in category#3 of 15 in Virtualization#14 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars4 8448 676
Stars, last 30 days+13+49
Stable releases, 12 months1911
Latest releaselxd-6.10.1 · 28 Oct 2026v0.34.1 · 17 Sept 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageGoGo

Which one should you pick?

prom-alertmanager scores 73/100 against 70/100 for LXD, so it is the safer default.

LXD ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for prom-alertmanager.

If you want the quickest setup, LXD is easier to run; prom-alertmanager needs more configuration.

prom-alertmanager is growing faster right now (+49 stars in 30 days).

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