ortuman/jackal

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1429 stars · 139 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Jackal is a free, open-source, high-performance XMPP (Jabber) instant messaging server written in Go. It emphasizes stability, simple configuration, and low resource consumption, with clustering, caching, and Prometheus metrics support.

Use cases

• self-host an XMPP chat server
• run a private instant messaging server for my team
• deploy a scalable federated messaging server
• set up an XMPP server for IoT device messaging
• host a Jabber server with clustering and Redis caching
• replace proprietary chat backends with an open-source XMPP server

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, low-resource XMPP server
• you want clustering support with etcd for horizontal scaling
• you prefer simple YAML configuration and Prometheus metrics
• you want a Go-based server deployable via Docker or Helm on Kubernetes

When to avoid

• you need a modern chat protocol like Matrix instead of XMPP
• you require extensive XEP coverage comparable to Prosody or ejabberd
• you need a managed messaging service rather than self-hosting
• you need very recent development activity, as releases have slowed

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

http-server websocket caching monitoring auth self-hosted iot backend networking go self-hosted xmpp-server jabber instant-messaging chat-server clustering stream-compression messaging linux macos docker kubernetes

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