# kubernetes-retired/heapster

[EOL] Compute Resource Usage Analysis and Monitoring of Container Clusters

Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/heapster
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/heapster
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-11-30T22:53:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4392, "days_push": 2833, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2634, forks 1230 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.187265+00:00)

## What it is
Heapster was a container cluster monitoring and performance analysis tool for Kubernetes that collected compute resource usage and lifecycle events, with pluggable storage sinks like InfluxDB and Stackdriver. It has been officially retired and is no longer maintained, with users directed to metrics-server or Prometheus-based pipelines.

## Use cases
- monitor cpu and memory usage of kubernetes containers
- collect resource metrics from a kubernetes cluster
- analyze container cluster performance
- export kubernetes metrics to influxdb or stackdriver
- track container lifecycle events in a cluster
- set up autoscaling metrics for kubernetes

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy Kubernetes cluster that already depends on Heapster
- you need to understand or extend an old monitoring setup built on Heapster

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new Kubernetes monitoring setup - use metrics-server or Prometheus instead
- you need HPA metrics - use metrics-server
- you need general cluster monitoring - use a Prometheus-based pipeline
- you expect bug fixes or support - the project is retired

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring
- domain: monitoring, cloud-computing
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: kubernetes, container-monitoring, resource-usage, retired, deprecated, metrics-pipeline, cluster-monitoring, metrics-collection, containers, devops, docker

## Member repositories
- kubernetes-retired/heapster (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.187265+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 2026-08-30T02:19:21.352625+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/heapster (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.187265+00:00, sha bb3b01e0f3be)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.