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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Hotjar vs ZoneMinder
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Hotjar and ZoneMinder — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Hotjar vs ZoneMinder: at a glance
What is Hotjar?
Hotjar's update feed has gone quiet — the 2026 entries are share buttons, not releases.
The three most recent entries are not product updates at all: they are captures of the page's social share widget, carrying 'Copy link' as their title and a Facebook share dialog as their URL. Behind them, the newest genuine announcement is from April 2025, covering improvements to Surveys and User Tests including prototype testing. The substantive items below that date to 2024.
What is ZoneMinder?
1.38.4 is a security release in all but name, closing ACL gaps across the API.
The 1.38 line is in maintenance, and 1.38.4 is almost entirely authorization work: per-monitor access control enforced on event, frame, zone, tag and media endpoints, two auth bypasses fixed in token validation, and SQL injection and overflow hardening. The 1.36 branch still receives backports, with 1.36.38 carrying its own SQL injection fix. The last feature release was 1.38.0 in February, which brought role-based access control, WebRTC and Go2RTC streaming, and the split of monitor function into separate capturing, analysing, and recording settings.
Hotjar vs ZoneMinder: editorial side-by-side
Hotjar
0.0INFRA · APIS
Hotjar's update feed has gone quiet — the 2026 entries are share buttons, not releases.
◆ Current state
The three most recent entries are not product updates at all: they are captures of the page's social share widget, carrying 'Copy link' as their title and a Facebook share dialog as their URL. Behind them, the newest genuine announcement is from April 2025, covering improvements to Surveys and User Tests including prototype testing. The substantive items below that date to 2024.
◆ Where it's heading
What the real entries show is a product that expanded from behavioural analytics into structured research — surveys, user tests, prototype testing, AI-tagged responses, and a path from survey respondent to follow-up interview. Whether that expansion has continued through 2026 cannot be told from this feed, because nothing since April 2025 has been captured with content.
◆ Prediction
There is not enough recent data to predict a next move. The feed's newest real announcement is more than a year old and the entries after it are page furniture, so any read on Hotjar's current direction would be invented rather than observed.
ZoneMinder
2.5INFRA · APIS
1.38.4 is a security release in all but name, closing ACL gaps across the API.
◆ Current state
The 1.38 line is in maintenance, and 1.38.4 is almost entirely authorization work: per-monitor access control enforced on event, frame, zone, tag and media endpoints, two auth bypasses fixed in token validation, and SQL injection and overflow hardening. The 1.36 branch still receives backports, with 1.36.38 carrying its own SQL injection fix. The last feature release was 1.38.0 in February, which brought role-based access control, WebRTC and Go2RTC streaming, and the split of monitor function into separate capturing, analysing, and recording settings.
◆ Where it's heading
Every release since 1.38.0 has been consolidation of what that release opened up. RBAC shipped as a headline feature in February, and the four maintenance drops since have been finding the endpoints it did not cover — the familiar pattern when a permission model is retrofitted onto an API that predates it. Cadence is slow and irregular, months apart, with a 1.39 spec bump already visible in the repo but nothing from that series shipped.
◆ Prediction
Expect more per-endpoint ACL fixes on the 1.38 line before anything from 1.39 reaches release.
Alternatives to Hotjar and ZoneMinder
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Hotjar or ZoneMinder.
Honeycomb
Honeycomb bets that the agent, not the engineer, should notice the anomaly first
Jenkins
Jenkins is shrinking its own war file and rebuilding its UI, one weekly release at a time
GitHub
Copilot's model roster churns weekly while GitHub quietly rewires policy and billing plumbing
incident.io
Nexus does the diagnosis; the rest is on-call plumbing
werf
Four channels, one fix stream — werf's releases are mostly concurrency repairs.
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Recent activity from Hotjar and ZoneMinder
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoZoneMinder1.38.4 closes API ACL gaps and two auth bypasses
- 2mo agoZoneMinder1.38.3 supersedes 1.38.2 with RBAC and injection fixes
- 2mo agoZoneMinderchore: bump redhat spec version to 1.39.11
- 3mo agoHotjarShare-widget capture of the survey auto-tagging update
- 4mo agoHotjarShare-widget capture of the survey button labels update
- 4mo agoHotjarShare-widget capture of the interview invitations update
- 5mo agoZoneMinder1.36.38 backports a SQL injection fix to the legacy branch
- 5mo agoZoneMinder1.38.1 unifies four ONVIF control modules into one
- 6mo agoZoneMinder1.38.0 adds RBAC, WebRTC streaming, and a monitor function split ⚡
- 1y agoHotjarNew ways to get the insights you need
- 1y agoHotjarDuplicate capture of the April 2025 Surveys and User Tests update
- 1y agoHotjarSpot bugs and improve your site with User Tests
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Hotjar and ZoneMinder?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ZoneMinder is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Hotjar better than ZoneMinder?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ZoneMinder is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Hotjar?
Top Hotjar alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hotjar alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hotjar for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to ZoneMinder?
Top ZoneMinder alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ZoneMinder alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/zoneminder for the full list with editorial commentary on each.