apache/nifi
Apache NiFi observed · 2026-10-07
Health v2 · maintenance only
93/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 83
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 40.5
- age_days: 4330
- days_rel: 37
- days_push: 14
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
6249 stars · 2984 forks observed · 2026-10-07
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Apache NiFi is an easy-to-use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data, built on the JVM. It provides a browser-based interface for designing, running, and monitoring dataflow pipelines with data provenance tracking, guaranteed delivery, back pressure control, and runtime flow modification.
Use cases
- build data pipelines to ingest and route data between systems
- automate cybersecurity and observability data distribution
- stream events from Kafka, MQTT, or Kinesis into databases and storage
- transform and convert records between JSON, CSV, and Avro formats
- track complete data lineage and provenance for compliance
- move files and data to and from cloud storage like S3 and Azure Blob
- build generative AI data pipelines
When to choose
- you need a visual, browser-based tool to design dataflows without writing code
- you need guaranteed delivery, back pressure, and data provenance out of the box
- you need to connect many heterogeneous sources and sinks (Kafka, S3, databases, SFTP, cloud services)
- you need runtime modification of flows and multi-tenant authorization
When to avoid
- you need lightweight, code-first ETL embedded in your application
- your pipelines are simple enough for a script or a scheduler like cron
- you need heavy custom transformations better suited to a stream processing framework like Flink or Spark
- you cannot operate a JVM-based self-hosted server
Facets
application · maturity stable
etl streaming workflow-automation data-science routing web-framework big-data self-hosted analytics jvm self-hosted cross-platform dataflow data-pipelines data-provenance etl-pipelines visual-programming apache ingestion stream-processing data-engineering automation docker web-server
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/apache/nifi · fetched 2026-10-07 · 2c7aa58f4331
- homepage: https://nifi.apache.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 431fc3e20f5f
- site_page: https://nifi.apache.org/documentation · fetched 2026-08-29 · 95c4653ab5e5
- site_page: https://nifi.apache.org/documentation/v1 · fetched 2026-08-29 · c71165e1f27c
- site_page: https://nifi.apache.org/documentation/guides · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2471903ff966
- site_page: https://nifi.apache.org/documentation/security · fetched 2026-08-29 · fa06cc5d1e46
- site_page: https://nifi.apache.org/components · fetched 2026-08-29 · f9c46271ddbc
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| apache/nifi | main | 93 |
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