pinterest/pinball
Pinball is a scalable workflow manager observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4200
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2458
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1046 stars · 125 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Pinball is a scalable workflow manager originally developed at Pinterest, providing scheduling, execution, and monitoring of job workflows via master, scheduler, worker, and UI components. It stores workflow state in MySQL and is no longer actively maintained.
Use cases
- schedule and run recurring data pipeline jobs
- orchestrate multi-step workflows with retries and priorities
- self-host a workflow manager with a web UI
- manage job dependencies and overrun policies
- monitor scheduled job execution and get per-job email alerts
When to choose
- you need a simple, horizontally scalable workflow scheduler backed by MySQL
- you want an admin-friendly scheduler that can be upgraded without aborting running workflows
- you're maintaining an existing Pinball deployment
When to avoid
- you're starting a new project - it's unmaintained since Pinterest archived active development
- you need modern workflow features, active community support, or recent security patches
- you can't run MySQL as persistent storage
Facets
service · maturity abandoned
workflow-automation scheduling web-framework developer-tools self-hosted python self-hosted workflow-manager job-scheduler data-pipelines unmaintained mysql-backend automation data-engineering devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/pinterest/pinball · fetched 2026-08-28 · ea3538d4fdac
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| pinterest/pinball | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="pinterest/pinball")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem