ccfos/nightingale
Open-source, self-hosted alerting for metrics, logs, and databases. Includes a built-in AI agent and MCP server.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #1 among Monitoring repositories tracked this week, and #1 over the last 30 days; #118 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 4%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 168 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #19 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 7, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an open-source alerting engine focused on generating, processing, and distributing monitoring alarms from various data sources.
- Offers flexible alerting rules, multi-protocol data integration, and distributed deployment for reliable alerting even in poor network conditions.
- Use for setting up centralized alerting systems that integrate with existing time-series databases like Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics.
- Use for deploying edge alerting engines in remote data centers to maintain alerting functionality despite network disruptions.
- Use for automating alert noise reduction and customized notification workflows across multiple notification channels like SMS, email, and Slack.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Nightingale is an open-source monitoring project that focuses on alerting. Similar to Grafana, Nightingale also connects with various existing data sources. However, while Grafana emphasizes visualization, Nightingale places greater emphasis on the alerting engine, as well as the processing and distribution of alarms.
The Nightingale project was initially developed and open-sourced by DiDi.inc. On May 11, 2022, it was donated to the Open Source Development Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF ODC).
Many users have already collected metrics and log data. In this case, you can connect your storage repositories (such as VictoriaMetrics, ElasticSearch, etc.) as data sources in Nightingale. This allows you to configure alerting rules and notification rules within Nightingale, enabling the generation and distribution of alarms.
Nightingale itself does not provide monitoring data collection capabilities. We recommend using Categraf as the collector, which integrates seamlessly with Nightingale.
Categraf can collect monitoring data from operating systems, network devices, various middleware, and databases. It pushes this data to Nightingale via the
Prometheus Remote Writeprotocol. Nightingale then stores the monitoring data in a time-series database (such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, etc.) and provides alerting and visualization capabilities.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+217 stars over 87 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +14 on Jul 31.
Forks
1.8K+54
Open issues
250+25
Compared with peers in Monitoring
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 18, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cilium/cilium | 25.7K | +39 | 75 | 7 days ago |
| netdata/netdata | 81.1K | +0 | 75 | 12 days ago |
| influxdata/telegraf | 17.9K | +0 | 75 | 8 days ago |
| ccfos/nightingale | 13.4K | +0 | 75 | 9 days ago |
| drakkan/sftpgo | 12.7K | +0 | 75 | 33 days ago |
| grafana/alloy | 3.6K | +0 | 45 | today |
| Category median | 17.9K | +0 | 75 | — |
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