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huginn vs Statusnook
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Statusnook has 982 stars, 31 forks, 12 open issues and last shipped 1.9 years ago. huginn leads on adoption by 4,988% (49,967 vs 982 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Statusnook is written in Go under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Statusnook 3%. 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 | Statusnook | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 982 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2024-10-31 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 31 |
| 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 Statusnook if
- You want the Statusnook feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and Statusnook 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 Statusnook
Statusnook is a self hosted, MIT licensed status page and endpoint monitoring tool written in Go, aimed at small teams and individual operators who want to publish service health on their own infrastructure rather than pay for a hosted status page.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Statusnook more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and Statusnook has 982. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Statusnook free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and Statusnook under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and Statusnook?
huginn is written in Ruby and Statusnook 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 Statusnook?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Statusnook if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.