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prom-alertmanagervsWhatomate

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

prom-alertmanagerWhatomate
Score73/10053/100
Rank in category#14 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#37 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars8 6761 753
Stars, last 30 days+49+2
Stable releases, 12 months120
Latest releasev0.34.2 · 29 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoGo

Which one should you pick?

prom-alertmanager scores 73/100 against 53/100 for Whatomate, so it is the safer default.

prom-alertmanager ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Whatomate.

prom-alertmanager is growing faster right now (+49 stars in 30 days).

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