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netdata/netdata

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2013-06-17
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
395 open
Forks
6,623
Commits
23,380 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
milvus-io/milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-20
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-18
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,453 open
Forks
4,257
Commits
25,619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+43 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+30 +0.1%
pingcap/tidb

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2015-09-06
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
6,830 open
Forks
6,228
Commits
28,495 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
projectdiscovery/nuclei

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-20
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-04-03
License
MIT
Issues
107 open
Forks
3,819
Commits
6,461 commits
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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
netbirdio/netbird

Connect your devices into a secure WireGuardยฎ-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-05-01
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,576 open
Forks
1,620
Commits
3,246 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
keploy/keploy

Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-26
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-01-19
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
712 open
Forks
2,337
Commits
1,531 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
zincsearch/zincsearch

ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go.

Archived
Updated
2026-06-09
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2021-12-02
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
48 open
Forks
776
Commits
554 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-28
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2018-09-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
781 open
Forks
1,724
Commits
12,832 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
weaviate/weaviate

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native databaseโ€‹.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2016-03-30
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
695 open
Forks
1,374
Commits
28,703 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
crowdsecurity/crowdsec

CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-22
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2020-05-15
License
MIT
Issues
288 open
Forks
711
Commits
2,752 commits
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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
ory/kratos

Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.

Updated
2026-07-29
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2018-05-29
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
224 open
Forks
1,180
Commits
5,254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
tinode/chat

Instant messaging platform. Backend in Go. Clients: Swift iOS, Java Android, JS webapp, scriptable command line; chatbots

Updated
2026-08-01
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2015-10-22
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
41 open
Forks
2,074
Commits
4,195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
gravitl/netmaker

Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

Updated
2026-08-20
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-25
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
216 open
Forks
650
Commits
7,781 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
getlago/lago

Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API โญ๏ธ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2022-02-28
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
23 open
Forks
744
Commits
769 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
teamhanko/hanko

Modern authentication, on your terms. Open source alternative to Auth0, Clerk, WorkOS, Stytch.

Updated
2026-08-19
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2022-03-14
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
59 open
Forks
1,015
Commits
2,671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
cloudquery/cloudquery

Data pipelines for cloud config and security data. Build cloud asset inventory, CSPM, FinOps, and vulnerability management solutions. Extract from AWS, Azure, GCP, and 70+ cloud and SaaS sources.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-20
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-11-18
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
165 open
Forks
552
Commits
22,471 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
SeldonIO/seldon-core

An MLOps framework to package, deploy, monitor and manage thousands of production machine learning models

AI dev
Updated
2026-03-23
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2021-08-31
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
396 open
Forks
867
Commits
1,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
cerbos/cerbos

Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.

Updated
2026-08-18
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-01-31
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
58 open
Forks
205
Commits
2,671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
rudderlabs/rudder-server

Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-07-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
53 open
Forks
60
Commits
6,638 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
spacecloud-io/space-cloud

Open source Firebase + Heroku to develop, scale and secure serverless apps on Kubernetes

Updated
2024-07-04
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2019-02-09
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
149 open
Forks
232
Commits
1,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
storj/storj

Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-21
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2018-04-06
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
360 open
Forks
428
Commits
13,447 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
warrant-dev/warrant

Warrant is a highly scalable, centralized authorization service based on Google Zanzibar. Use it to define, enforce, query, and audit application authorization and access control.

Updated
2025-12-05
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2023-02-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
24 open
Forks
52
Commits
288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
selefra/selefra

The open-source policy-as-code software that provides analysis for Multi-Cloud and SaaS environments, you can get insight with natural language (powered by OpenAI).

Updated
2023-08-30
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2023-03-21
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
0 open
Forks
46
Commits
82 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history