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rsyslogvsZammad

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

rsyslogZammad
Score67/10070/100
Rank in category#2 of 8 in Logging#1 of 9 in Helpdesk
GitHub stars2 3446 053
Stars, last 30 days+8+101
Stable releases, 12 months40
Latest releasev8.2610.0 · 20 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseLGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageCRuby

Which one should you pick?

Zammad scores 70/100 against 67/100 for rsyslog, so it is the safer default.

rsyslog ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Zammad.

Zammad is growing faster right now (+101 stars in 30 days).

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