# arachnys/cabot

Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty

Repository: https://github.com/arachnys/cabot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cabot
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: django, python, graphite, monitoring, devops, alerting
Last push: 2023-09-10T09:23:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4622, "days_push": 1088, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5675, forks 582 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:27.735910+00:00)

## What it is
Cabot is a self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alerting service, offering a lightweight alternative to PagerDuty, Pingdom, and Nagios. It provides a web dashboard to monitor services and send phone, SMS, HipChat, or email alerts based on Graphite metrics, HTTP endpoint checks, and Jenkins build statuses.

## Use cases
- self-hosted uptime monitoring for services and endpoints
- alert on-call engineers via SMS, phone, or email when services go down
- alert based on Graphite/statsd metrics thresholds
- monitor Jenkins build statuses
- lightweight PagerDuty alternative without cost and complexity

## When to choose
- you want a simple, self-hosted monitoring and alerting service
- you already push metrics to Graphite/statsd and want to alert on them
- you find Nagios too complex and want a web UI with no-code configuration

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates and support
- you need Prometheus-style metric collection or a modern alerting ecosystem
- you require managed/on-call scheduling features at PagerDuty's level of maturity

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, alerting
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, python
- tags: pagerduty-alternative, graphite, django, status-checks, on-call-alerts, devops, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- arachnys/cabot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:27.735910+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:54:16.607246+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/arachnys/cabot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:27.735910+00:00, sha 9a3ce547b8b0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.