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restic-rest-servervsApache SkyWalking

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

restic-rest-serverApache SkyWalking
Score60/10076/100
Rank in category#17 of 46 in Backup#2 of 9 in Application Performance Monitoring
GitHub stars1 53324 976
Stars, last 30 days+36+2
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—v11.0.0 · 28 Aug 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseApache-2.0
Main languageGoJava

Which one should you pick?

Apache SkyWalking scores 76/100 against 60/100 for restic-rest-server, so it is the safer default.

Apache SkyWalking ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for restic-rest-server.

If you want the quickest setup, restic-rest-server is easier to run; Apache SkyWalking needs more configuration.

restic-rest-server is growing faster right now (+36 stars in 30 days).

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