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Awesome Sysadmin

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grafana/grafana

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-25
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-01-26
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
3,452 open
Forks
14,343
Commits
71,437 commits
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No 7-day history
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ansible/ansible

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

AI dev
GitHub topics
Updated
2026-07-27
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2012-02-23
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
818 open
Forks
24,228
Commits
55,506 commits
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No 7-day history
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prometheus/prometheus

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-03
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2012-11-24
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
899 open
Forks
10,738
Commits
18,207 commits
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No 7-day history
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git/git

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

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GitHub topics
Updated
2026-07-29
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2005-04-07
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
Disabled
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28,190
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81,772 commits
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No 7-day history
coollabsio/coolify

An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-02
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-24
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
841 open
Forks
5,199
Commits
16,265 commits
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rclone/rclone

"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-07
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2012-11-18
License
MIT
Issues
1,226 open
Forks
5,293
Commits
10,105 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
etcd-io/etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Updated
2026-08-04
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-06-07
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
294 open
Forks
10,444
Commits
25,125 commits
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mitmproxy/mitmproxy

An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-18
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2010-02-16
License
MIT
Issues
447 open
Forks
4,647
Commits
11,190 commits
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No 7-day history
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portainer/portainer

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-28
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2013-06-09
License
Zlib
Issues
742 open
Forks
2,869
Commits
6,060 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
harness/harness

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.

Updated
2026-08-12
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2022-08-09
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
103 open
Forks
3,316
Commits
4,203 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+99 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+6 +0.1%
nicolargo/glances

Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-28
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2011-12-04
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
107 open
Forks
1,775
Commits
7,215 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
hashicorp/consul

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

Updated
2026-08-03
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2013-11-04
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,384 open
Forks
4,610
Commits
21,949 commits
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No 7-day history
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authelia/authelia

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

Updated
2026-07-29
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2016-12-10
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
133 open
Forks
1,448
Commits
10,031 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
netbox-community/netbox

The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-29
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2016-03-01
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
216 open
Forks
3,077
Commits
15,517 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
google/cadvisor

Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

Updated
2026-07-20
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-06-09
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
63 open
Forks
2,482
Commits
3,779 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
influxdata/telegraf

Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

Updated
2026-08-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2015-04-01
License
MIT
Issues
414 open
Forks
5,830
Commits
11,308 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
slackhq/nebula

A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

Stack
Updated
2026-08-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2019-11-19
License
MIT
Issues
100 open
Forks
1,167
Commits
791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2018-09-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
737 open
Forks
1,700
Commits
12,719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
wazuh/wazuh

Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2005-09-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
2,990 open
Forks
2,394
Commits
48,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
hashicorp/packer

Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2013-03-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
316 open
Forks
3,333
Commits
19,011 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history