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prometheusvsrpi-mqtt-monitor

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

prometheusrpi-mqtt-monitor
Score90/10051/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#58 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars66 838328
Stars, last 30 days+642—
Stable releases, 12 months168
Latest releasev3.15.1 · 21 Oct 20261.4.3 · 18 Jun 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

prometheus scores 90/100 against 51/100 for rpi-mqtt-monitor, so it is the safer default.

prometheus ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 8 for rpi-mqtt-monitor.

prometheus is growing faster right now (+642 stars in 30 days).

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