ForestAdmin vs SolarWinds

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and SolarWinds both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over SolarWinds (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 35). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ForestAdmin is ahead of SolarWinds. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of SolarWinds. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), SolarWinds is slightly ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of SolarWinds. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), SolarWinds is clearly ahead of ForestAdmin.

ForestAdmin carries 3,415 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors on record. SolarWinds shows 1,101 stars across 104 public repos, 35 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. SolarWinds looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.