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huginn vs opentelemetry-ruby
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. opentelemetry-ruby has 606 stars, 301 forks, 144 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 8,146% (49,969 vs 606 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; opentelemetry-ruby is written in Ruby under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, opentelemetry-ruby 50%. huginn 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 | opentelemetry-ruby | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 606 |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Ruby |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 301 |
| 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 opentelemetry-ruby if
- You want the opentelemetry-ruby feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You evaluated both and opentelemetry-ruby 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 opentelemetry-ruby
OpenTelemetry Ruby is the vendor neutral Ruby client for OpenTelemetry — an Apache 2.0 API and SDK that lets Ruby applications produce distributed traces, metrics and other telemetry — built for Ruby developers and platform teams who want observability data without committing to a single vendor's agent.
read the full opentelemetry-ruby overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or opentelemetry-ruby more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and opentelemetry-ruby has 606. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and opentelemetry-ruby free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and opentelemetry-ruby under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and opentelemetry-ruby?
huginn is written in Ruby and opentelemetry-ruby in Ruby. 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 opentelemetry-ruby?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose opentelemetry-ruby if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.