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World MonitorvsZPan

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

World MonitorZPan
Score86/10056/100
Rank in category#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#8 of 11 in Cloud Storage
GitHub stars89 7272 080
Stars, last 30 days+2 388+2
Stable releases, 12 months1710
Latest releasev2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026v2.9.0 · 30 Aug 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 56/100 for ZPan, so it is the safer default.

World Monitor ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for ZPan.

If you want the quickest setup, ZPan is easier to run; World Monitor needs more configuration.

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 388 stars in 30 days).

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