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prometheusvsYT Navigator

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

prometheusYT Navigator
Score90/10044/100
Rank in category#1 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#71 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars66 858606
Stars, last 30 days+646+0
Stable releases, 12 months160
Latest releasev3.15.1 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageGoPython

Which one should you pick?

prometheus scores 90/100 against 44/100 for YT Navigator, so it is the safer default.

prometheus ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for YT Navigator.

If you want the quickest setup, prometheus is easier to run; YT Navigator needs more configuration.

prometheus is growing faster right now (+646 stars in 30 days).

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