circus-tent/circus

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1578 stars · 260 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Circus is a Python-based process and socket manager built on ZeroMQ that can run, watch, and control multiple processes and sockets. It can be used both as a library and through a command-line tool.

Use cases

• manage and supervise multiple long-running processes
• watch and restart processes that crash
• manage sockets shared across worker processes
• control processes remotely via a zmq-based API
• replace supervisord for process management
• run and monitor worker pools from the command line

When to choose

• you need programmatic process supervision in Python
• you want to share sockets across multiple worker processes
• you prefer a ZeroMQ-based control API over supervisord's XML-RPC
• you need both a library and CLI for process management

When to avoid

• you need full init-system or container orchestration features
• you want a modern web UI for process management
• you only need simple systemd-style service management on Linux
• you require active community development with frequent releases

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

monitoring middleware cli developer-tools backend developer-tools python cross-platform cli process-manager process-supervision zmq socket-management supervisor devops automation linux macos

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