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huginn vs OpenObserve
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. OpenObserve has 21,993 stars, 1,091 forks, 598 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 127% (49,967 vs 21,993 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; OpenObserve is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, OpenObserve 5%. OpenObserve 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 | OpenObserve | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 22K |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.1K |
| 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 OpenObserve if
- You want the OpenObserve feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and OpenObserve 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 OpenObserve
OpenObserve is an open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics, Real User Monitoring, session replay, pipelines, SLO, and LLM observability. It lives in the cloud native infrastructure ecosystem and is described as an alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch. The project is built in Rust, ships as a single binary, and uses Parquet columnar storage with an S3 native design.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or OpenObserve more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and OpenObserve has 21,993. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and OpenObserve free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and OpenObserve under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and OpenObserve?
huginn is written in Ruby and OpenObserve in TypeScript. 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 OpenObserve?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose OpenObserve if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.