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grafana/grafana

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-05
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-01-26
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
3,299 open
Forks
14,818
Commits
74,035 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
ansible/ansible

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

AI dev
GitHub topics
Updated
2026-08-27
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2012-02-23
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
836 open
Forks
24,336
Commits
55,529 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
prometheus/prometheus

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2012-11-24
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
888 open
Forks
10,837
Commits
18,628 commits
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No 7-day history
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git/git

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

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GitHub topics
Updated
2026-09-01
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2005-04-07
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
Disabled
Forks
28,330
Commits
82,130 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
coollabsio/coolify

An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-24
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
647 open
Forks
5,439
Commits
16,966 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
rclone/rclone

"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-18
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2012-11-18
License
MIT
Issues
1,276 open
Forks
5,407
Commits
10,366 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
etcd-io/etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-06-07
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
340 open
Forks
10,499
Commits
25,221 commits
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No 7-day history
mitmproxy/mitmproxy

An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-25
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2010-02-16
License
MIT
Issues
470 open
Forks
4,702
Commits
11,225 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
harness/harness

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.

Updated
2026-10-02
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2022-08-09
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
116 open
Forks
3,412
Commits
4,251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+22 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+5 +0.1%
portainer/portainer

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-28
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-06-09
License
Zlib
Issues
745 open
Forks
2,892
Commits
6,138 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
nicolargo/glances

Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows operating systems.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-29
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2011-12-04
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
100 open
Forks
1,800
Commits
7,350 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
hashicorp/consul

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2013-11-04
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,413 open
Forks
4,623
Commits
21,988 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
authelia/authelia

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

Updated
2026-09-02
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2016-12-10
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
131 open
Forks
1,475
Commits
10,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
goauthentik/authentik

The authentication glue you need.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-11-11
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,069 open
Forks
2,003
Commits
24,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
netbox-community/netbox

The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-29
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2016-03-01
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
196 open
Forks
3,112
Commits
15,622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
google/cadvisor

Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

Updated
2026-07-20
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-06-09
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
62 open
Forks
2,488
Commits
3,779 commits
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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
slackhq/nebula

A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

Stack
Updated
2026-09-15
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2019-11-19
License
MIT
Issues
97 open
Forks
1,186
Commits
820 commits
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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
influxdata/telegraf

Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

Updated
2026-09-18
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2015-04-01
License
MIT
Issues
409 open
Forks
5,835
Commits
11,568 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-28
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2018-09-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
781 open
Forks
1,724
Commits
12,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
ipfs/kubo

IPFS implementation in Go: a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data, with a CLI, HTTP Gateway, and RPC API

AI dev
GitHub topics
Updated
2026-09-01
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-06-26
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
879 open
Forks
3,163
Commits
15,985 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
wazuh/wazuh

Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

Updated
2026-10-03
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2005-09-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
3,145 open
Forks
2,523
Commits
51,684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
ceph/ceph

Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-21
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2001-04-28
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
Disabled
Forks
6,507
Commits
165,364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
hashicorp/packer

Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-18
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2013-03-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
318 open
Forks
3,336
Commits
19,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
saltstack/salt

Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-12
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2011-02-20
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,879 open
Forks
5,610
Commits
126,134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history