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MCSManagervsprometheus

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

MCSManagerprometheus
Score68/10090/100
Rank in category#8 of 62 in Game Servers#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars5 00466 858
Stars, last 30 days+35+646
Stable releases, 12 months2016
Latest releasev10.22.0 · 27 Oct 2026v3.15.1 · 21 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

prometheus scores 90/100 against 68/100 for MCSManager, so it is the safer default.

MCSManager ships more often: 20 stable releases in the past year, against 16 for prometheus.

If you want the quickest setup, MCSManager is easier to run; prometheus needs more configuration.

prometheus is growing faster right now (+646 stars in 30 days).

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