temporalio/temporal
Temporal service observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
97/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 92
- Longevity 100
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: 9
- age_days: 2513
- days_rel: 56
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 36
Adoption not part of the score
22549 stars · 1839 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that runs application logic as resilient Workflows, automatically handling failures, retries, and resumption after crashes or outages. It is a mature fork of Uber's Cadence with SDKs for Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, and more, plus a CLI and Web UI.
Use cases
- orchestrate long-running business processes like order fulfillment and payment processing
- run distributed cron jobs and scheduled workflows
- build crash-proof AI agent pipelines that survive failures
- coordinate microservices with reliable retries and timeouts
- execute multi-step workflows that resume after infrastructure outages
- replace fragile in-house job schedulers and state machines
When to choose
- you need workflows that reliably survive crashes, restarts, and outages over hours, days, or years
- you are orchestrating microservices or long-running business processes with retries and compensation
- you need durable execution for AI agents or multi-step pipelines
- you want a battle-tested, actively maintained platform with SDKs in many languages
When to avoid
- you only need simple one-shot background jobs without durability guarantees
- you cannot operate a stateful server cluster and don't want to use Temporal Cloud
- your workflows are short-lived and a simple queue or cron scheduler suffices
- you need a lightweight library embedded in a single process rather than a platform
Facets
service · maturity stable
workflow-automation scheduling microservices concurrency agent-framework developer-tools microservices backend developer-tools go self-hosted cloud cross-platform durable-execution workflow-engine orchestration reliability fault-tolerance distributed-cron temporal automation ai-agents docker
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal · fetched 2026-08-28 · 243da0134c3c
- homepage: https://docs.temporal.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 42950598b19c
- site_page: https://docs.temporal.io/quickstarts · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9c3cc08c3480
- site_page: https://docs.temporal.io/integrations · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3263c35b3917
- site_page: https://docs.temporal.io/develop · fetched 2026-08-29 · 30f6170a3633
- site_page: https://temporal.io/changelog · fetched 2026-08-29 · 40b298b473aa
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| temporalio/temporal | main | 97 |
For agents
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