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openobservevsyoutube-dl-nas

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

openobserveyoutube-dl-nas
Score78/10050/100
Rank in category#9 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#27 of 45 in Download Management
GitHub stars22 591201
Stars, last 30 days+470+0
Stable releases, 12 months2211
Latest releasev1.1.2 · 20 Oct 202626.1029 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

openobserve scores 78/100 against 50/100 for youtube-dl-nas, so it is the safer default.

openobserve ships more often: 22 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for youtube-dl-nas.

openobserve is growing faster right now (+470 stars in 30 days).

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