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openobservevsShipShipShip

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

openobserveShipShipShip
Score78/10047/100
Rank in category#9 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#6 of 6 in Product Management
GitHub stars22 581301
Stars, last 30 days+460+0
Stable releases, 12 months2210
Latest releasev1.1.2 · 20 Oct 2026v1.3.5 · 18 Feb 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptSvelte

Which one should you pick?

openobserve scores 78/100 against 47/100 for ShipShipShip, so it is the safer default.

openobserve ships more often: 22 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for ShipShipShip.

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

openobserve is growing faster right now (+460 stars in 30 days).

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