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huginn vs dozzle
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. dozzle has 14,410 stars, 617 forks, 6 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 247% (49,967 vs 14,410 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; dozzle is written in Go under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, dozzle 4%. dozzle was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| huginn | dozzle | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 14K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 617 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick huginn if
- You weight community size — 50K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick dozzle if
- You want the dozzle feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and dozzle fits your workflow better
About huginn
Huginn is an open source system for building agents that perform automated tasks online, written in Ruby and released under the MIT license. Its agents read the web, watch for events, and take actions on the user's behalf. Internally, agents create and consume events that propagate along a directed graph, which means one agent's output becomes another agent's input and a chain of small steps can be composed into a larger workflow. The project lives in the Ruby ecosystem and is distributed as an official Docker image or installed locally from a forked repository.
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About dozzle
Dozzle is a lightweight, web based application for monitoring Docker logs in real time. It is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license, and it lives in the container and orchestration ecosystem alongside Docker, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, which its topics and tagline both name. The project ships as a small container — roughly 7 MB compressed — and its user interface is built with Vue.js. It exposes a browser view over logs rather than writing them anywhere: the README states plainly that Dozzle stores no log files and exists purely for live log viewing.
read the full dozzle overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or dozzle more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and dozzle has 14,410. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and dozzle free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and dozzle under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and dozzle?
huginn is written in Ruby and dozzle in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, huginn or dozzle?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose dozzle if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.