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Syslog-ngvstranscriber

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

Syslog-ngtranscriber
Score66/10041/100
Rank in category#3 of 8 in Logging#10 of 15 in Audio Processing
GitHub stars2 386154
Stars, last 30 days+10+1
Stable releases, 12 months20
Latest releasesyslog-ng-4.12.0 · 16 Jun 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherMIT
Main languageCPython

Which one should you pick?

Syslog-ng scores 66/100 against 41/100 for transcriber, so it is the safer default.

Syslog-ng ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for transcriber.

Syslog-ng is growing faster right now (+10 stars in 30 days).

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