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orbvsWorld Monitor

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

orbWorld Monitor
Score51/10086/100
Rank in category#21 of 48 in Network Monitoring#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars68289 717
Stars, last 30 days—+2 428
Stable releases, 12 months017
Latest release—v2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMPL-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 51/100 for orb, so it is the safer default.

World Monitor ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for orb.

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 428 stars in 30 days).

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