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prom-alertmanagervsSimpleX Chat

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

prom-alertmanagerSimpleX Chat
Score73/10074/100
Rank in category#14 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#4 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars8 67619 613
Stars, last 30 days+49+143
Stable releases, 12 months1112
Latest releasev0.34.1 · 17 Sept 2026v7.0.4 · 3 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoHaskell

Which one should you pick?

SimpleX Chat scores 74/100 against 73/100 for prom-alertmanager, so it is the safer default.

SimpleX Chat ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 11 for prom-alertmanager.

SimpleX Chat is growing faster right now (+143 stars in 30 days).

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