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Node REDvsprometheus-qbittorrent-exporter

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Node REDprometheus-qbittorrent-exporter
Score81/10047/100
Rank in category#1 of 26 in Automation#70 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars23 791197
Stars, last 30 days+109—
Stable releases, 12 months213
Latest release4.1.17 · 21 Oct 20261.8.0 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Node RED scores 81/100 against 47/100 for prometheus-qbittorrent-exporter, so it is the safer default.

Node RED ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for prometheus-qbittorrent-exporter.

Node RED is growing faster right now (+109 stars in 30 days).

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