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portabasevsprom-alertmanager

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

portabaseprom-alertmanager
Score60/10073/100
Rank in category#3 of 15 in Backup Management#14 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars1 8608 676
Stars, last 30 days+95+49
Stable releases, 12 months6411
Latest release1.35.0 · 27 Oct 2026v0.34.1 · 17 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

prom-alertmanager scores 73/100 against 60/100 for portabase, so it is the safer default.

portabase ships more often: 64 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for prom-alertmanager.

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