# kestra-io/kestra

Event Driven Orchestration & Scheduling Platform for Mission Critical Applications

Repository: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kestra
Homepage: https://go.kestra.io/home
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: orchestration, data-orchestration, high-availability, infrastructure-as-code, automation, devops, java, low-code, pipeline, pipeline-as-code, workflow, hacktoberfest, ai-agents, control-plane, data-engineering, data-orchestrator, etl, infra-automation, infra-ops, scheduler
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:41:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2566, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 368}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 27933, forks 2943 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:48.024444+00:00)

## What it is
Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration and scheduling platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows, written in Java. It unifies scheduled and event-driven automation behind a declarative, pipeline-as-code interface with a UI and mission-critical features like high availability.

## Use cases
- orchestrate data pipelines with scheduled and event-driven triggers
- automate ETL workflows as code
- schedule and monitor mission-critical batch jobs
- coordinate AI agent and LLM workflows
- manage infrastructure automation workflows
- replace cron jobs and Airflow with a declarative orchestrator

## When to choose
- you need a unified platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows
- you want pipeline-as-code with a low-code UI
- you need high availability for mission-critical orchestration
- you orchestrate mixed data, AI, and infrastructure tasks

## When to avoid
- you only need simple cron-style scheduling without a control plane
- you want a lightweight single-binary tool with no JVM dependency
- your workflows are purely code-based CI/CD better served by a pipeline runner

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: workflow-automation, scheduling, etl, infrastructure-as-code, deployment, agent-framework
- domain: large-language-models, self-hosted
- platform: jvm, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: orchestration, pipeline-as-code, low-code, event-driven, data-pipelines, scheduler, control-plane, high-availability, data-engineering, devops, automation, docker, kubernetes, web-server

## Member repositories
- kestra-io/kestra (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:48.024444+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 2026-08-29T16:54:29.030251+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:48.024444+00:00, sha 0d661280e651)
  - homepage: https://go.kestra.io/home (fetched 2026-08-29T07:51:13.317714+00:00, sha 1055d043f0c3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.