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World Monitorvszusam

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

World Monitorzusam
Score86/10044/100
Rank in category#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability#58 of 69 in Social Networks & Forums
GitHub stars89 750223
Stars, last 30 days+2 411+0
Stable releases, 12 months172
Latest releasev2.11.6 · 25 Oct 20260.6.1 · 2 Mar 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPHP

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 44/100 for zusam, so it is the safer default.

World Monitor ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for zusam.

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

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 411 stars in 30 days).

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