ccfos/nightingale
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 12.0
- age_days: 2374
- days_rel: 15
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 43
Adoption not part of the score
13272 stars · 1760 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Nightingale is an open-source monitoring and alerting platform focused on the alerting engine, alarm processing, and distribution, connecting to existing data sources like VictoriaMetrics and ElasticSearch. It is comparable to Grafana but emphasizes alerting over visualization, and includes a built-in MCP endpoint for AI-assisted observability management.
Use cases
- set up alerting rules for metrics and logs
- monitor servers and middleware with open-source tooling
- route and distribute alerts to on-call teams
- connect VictoriaMetrics or ElasticSearch as alerting data sources
- manage monitoring alerts via an AI assistant
- replace or complement Grafana with an alerting-focused platform
When to choose
- you need a self-hosted alerting engine on top of existing metrics/log storage
- you want out-of-box alert rules and dashboards for common middleware
- you need alert features like inhibit, mute, subscription, and event relabeling
When to avoid
- you primarily need data collection - use Categraf or similar collectors alongside it
- you mainly want rich visualization rather than alerting
- you need a fully managed SaaS monitoring solution
Facets
application · maturity active
monitoring alerting tracing mcp monitoring self-hosted self-hosted go time-series metrics observability on-call open-falcon tsdb dashboards devops linux docker web-server
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ccfos/nightingale · fetched 2026-08-28 · 141f37142b01
- homepage: https://n9e.github.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7149c76b86fe
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ccfos/nightingale | main | 99 |
For agents
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