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signozvsvanilla-cookbook

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

signozvanilla-cookbook
Score79/10046/100
Rank in category#7 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars32 479158
Stars, last 30 days+291+0
Stable releases, 12 months3813
Latest releasev0.148.0 · 28 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

signoz scores 79/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

signoz ships more often: 38 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for vanilla-cookbook.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; signoz needs more configuration.

signoz is growing faster right now (+291 stars in 30 days).

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