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huginn vs nginx-module-vts
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. nginx-module-vts has 3,503 stars, 489 forks, 11 open issues and last shipped 7 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 1,326% (49,969 vs 3,503 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; nginx-module-vts is written in C under BSD-2-Clause. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, nginx-module-vts 14%. huginn was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (monitoring), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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 | nginx-module-vts | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 3.5K |
| License | MIT | BSD-2-Clause |
| Written in | Ruby | C |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-12 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 489 |
| 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 nginx-module-vts if
- You want the nginx-module-vts feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the BSD-2-Clause license terms
- Your stack matches C
- You evaluated both and nginx-module-vts 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 nginx-module-vts
nginx module vts is an open source Nginx module that tracks and exposes per virtual host traffic statistics — request counts, response codes, and traffic totals — as JSON or HTML, built for Nginx operators who need visibility into vhost traffic without running a separate metrics agent.
read the full nginx-module-vts overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or nginx-module-vts more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and nginx-module-vts has 3,503. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and nginx-module-vts free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and nginx-module-vts under BSD-2-Clause. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and nginx-module-vts?
huginn is written in Ruby and nginx-module-vts in C. 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 nginx-module-vts?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose nginx-module-vts if its feature set, stack or BSD-2-Clause licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.