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huginn vs VictoriaLogs
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped today. VictoriaLogs has 2,291 stars, 193 forks, 314 open issues and last shipped today. huginn leads on adoption by 2,081% (49,969 vs 2,291 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; VictoriaLogs is written in Go under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, VictoriaLogs 8%. VictoriaLogs 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 | VictoriaLogs | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 2.3K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 193 |
| 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 VictoriaLogs if
- You want the VictoriaLogs feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and VictoriaLogs 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 VictoriaLogs
VictoriaLogs VictoriaLogs is a high performance, lightweight, zero config, schema free database for logs that is easy to use and scales both vertically and horizontally, from very small setups to large scale deployments handling terabytes per day. Both the single node and cluster versions of VictoriaLogs are open source and free to use. Here are some resources to help you get started with VictoriaLogs: Playgrounds: built in web UI, Grafana plugin for VictoriaLogs, SQL to LogsQL, LogQL to LogsQL Documentation Available: Binary releases, docker images Docker Hub and Quay, Source code Deployment types: Single node v…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or VictoriaLogs more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and VictoriaLogs has 2,291. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and VictoriaLogs free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and VictoriaLogs under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and VictoriaLogs?
huginn is written in Ruby and VictoriaLogs 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 VictoriaLogs?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose VictoriaLogs if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.