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huginn vs zabbix-docker
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. zabbix-docker has 2,840 stars, 1,446 forks, 7 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 1,659% (49,969 vs 2,840 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; zabbix-docker is written in Dockerfile under AGPL-3.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, zabbix-docker 51%. zabbix-docker 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 | zabbix-docker | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 2.8K |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Dockerfile |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.4K |
| 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 zabbix-docker if
- You want the zabbix-docker feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Dockerfile
- You evaluated both and zabbix-docker 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 zabbix-docker
zabbix docker is the official repository of Zabbix Dockerfiles that builds the zabbix/ images published to Docker Hub, for operators, SREs, and platform teams that deploy the Zabbix enterprise class open source distributed monitoring solution in containers.
read the full zabbix-docker overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or zabbix-docker more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and zabbix-docker has 2,840. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and zabbix-docker free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and zabbix-docker under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and zabbix-docker?
huginn is written in Ruby and zabbix-docker in Dockerfile. 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 zabbix-docker?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose zabbix-docker if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.