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MacOSvsopenITCOCKPIT

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

MacOSopenITCOCKPIT
Score76/10054/100
Rank in category#2 of 15 in Virtualization#6 of 19 in Infrastructure Monitoring
GitHub stars21 689399
Stars, last 30 days+115—
Stable releases, 12 months1812
Latest releasev3.12 · 21 Aug 2026openITCOCKPIT-5.9.0 · 22 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageShellPHP

Which one should you pick?

MacOS scores 76/100 against 54/100 for openITCOCKPIT, so it is the safer default.

MacOS ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for openITCOCKPIT.

MacOS is growing faster right now (+115 stars in 30 days).

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