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huginn vs sysstat
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. sysstat has 3,384 stars, 492 forks, 75 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 1,385% (50,269 vs 3,384 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; sysstat is written in C under GPL-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, sysstat 15%. 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 | sysstat | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 3.4K |
| License | MIT | GPL-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | C |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 492 |
| 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 sysstat if
- You want the sysstat feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the GPL-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches C
- You evaluated both and sysstat 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 sysstat
sysstat System performance tools for the Linux operating system (C) 1999 2026 Sebastien GODARD (sysstat (at) orange (dot) fr) Introduction The sysstat package contains various utilities, common to many commercial Unixes, to monitor system performance and usage activity: iostat reports CPU statistics and input/output statistics for block devices and partitions. mpstat reports individual or combined processor related statistics. pidstat reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes) : I/O, CPU, memory, etc. tapestat reports statistics for tape drives connected to the system. cifsiostat reports CIFS statistics…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or sysstat more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and sysstat has 3,384. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and sysstat free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and sysstat under GPL-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and sysstat?
huginn is written in Ruby and sysstat 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 sysstat?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose sysstat if its feature set, stack or GPL-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.