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huginn vs RedELK
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. RedELK has 2,686 stars, 388 forks, 13 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 1,772% (50,269 vs 2,686 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; RedELK is written in Python under BSD-3-Clause. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, RedELK 14%. RedELK 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 | RedELK | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 2.7K |
| License | MIT | BSD-3-Clause |
| Written in | Ruby | Python |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 388 |
| 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 RedELK if
- You want the RedELK feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the BSD-3-Clause license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and RedELK fits your workflow better
About huginn
What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on…
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About RedELK
RedELK The Red Team's SIEM a tool for Red Teams for tracking and alarming about Blue Team activities as well as enhanced usability in long term operations. 1. Enhanced usability and overview for the red team operators by creating a central location where all relevant operational logs from multiple teamservers are collected and enriched. This is great for historic searching within the operation as well as giving a read only view on the operation (e.g. for the White Team). Especially useful for multi scenario, multi teamserver, multi member and multi month operations. Also, super easy ways for viewing all…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or RedELK more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and RedELK has 2,686. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and RedELK free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and RedELK under BSD-3-Clause. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and RedELK?
huginn is written in Ruby and RedELK in Python. 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 RedELK?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose RedELK if its feature set, stack or BSD-3-Clause licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.