# mozilla-services/heka

DEPRECATED: Data collection and processing made easy.

Repository: https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/heka
Homepage: http://hekad.readthedocs.org/
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-01-23T01:44:36+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": 5069, "days_push": 954, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3394, forks 515 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:02.165897+00:00)

## What it is
Heka is a Go-based tool for collecting data from many sources, performing in-flight processing, and delivering results to multiple destinations. It supports plugins written in Go or Lua but has been officially deprecated since 2016.

## Use cases
- collect and ship logs from multiple servers
- stream process data in flight before delivery
- parse and transform log messages in a pipeline
- route metrics and events to multiple backends
- build a lightweight data collection agent

## When to avoid
- starting any new project - it is deprecated
- you need active support or updates - consider Fluentd, Vector, or Logstash instead

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: etl, streaming, logging, message-queue, parser
- domain: monitoring, big-data
- platform: go, lua, cross-platform
- tags: data-pipeline, log-collection, deprecated, plugin-system, stream-processing, data-engineering, devops, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- mozilla-services/heka (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:02.165897+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 2026-08-29T18:38:59.218527+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:02.165897+00:00, sha ba0da1fae5fa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.