# pedestal/pedestal

The Pedestal Server-side Libraries

Repository: https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pedestal
Homepage: https://pedestal.io/pedestal/0.8/
Language: Clojure
License Family: other
Topics: pedestal, clojure
Last push: 2026-07-02T15:23:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 63/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 90, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4930, "days_push": 62, "days_rel": 492, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2779, forks 315 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:21.559683+00:00)

## What it is
Pedestal is a set of Clojure libraries for building server-side services, APIs, and web applications on the JVM. It provides an interceptor-based architecture with routing, async request handling, SSE/WebSocket support, and integrated logging, metrics, and OpenTelemetry tracing.

## Use cases
- build REST APIs in Clojure
- create a web service backend on the JVM
- serve server-sent events and WebSockets
- deploy a Clojure app as a WAR in a servlet container
- add metrics and tracing to a Clojure HTTP service
- build a small web server that scales up as the app grows

## When to choose
- you are building backend services or APIs in Clojure
- you want secure-by-default HTTP handling with CSRF protection and secure headers
- you need asynchronous request handling or first-class SSE/WebSocket support
- you want integrated logging, metrics, and OpenTelemetry tracing out of the box

## When to avoid
- you are not working in Clojure or on the JVM
- you need a full-stack frontend framework rather than a server-side library
- you prefer a minimal single HTTP handler without an interceptor model

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, http-server, routing, middleware, websocket, logging, monitoring, tracing, api-framework, security, testing
- domain: web-development, backend, apis, developer-tools
- platform: jvm, cross-platform
- tags: clojure, jetty, http-kit, server-sent-events, interceptors, servlet-api, open-telemetry, war-deployment, web-server

## Member repositories
- pedestal/pedestal (main) score 63

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:21.559683+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 2026-08-30T08:16:08.849526+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:21.559683+00:00, sha 1783fb5129c1)
  - homepage: https://pedestal.io/pedestal/0.8/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:55:32.270937+00:00, sha 9c7f0deb080b)
  - site_page: http://pedestal.io/api/0.8 (fetched 2026-08-29T09:55:32.273647+00:00, sha df09d79be70e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.