# stripe/veneur

A distributed, fault-tolerant pipeline for observability data

Repository: https://github.com/stripe/veneur
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/veneur
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-03-20T18:01:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3805, "days_push": 896, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1743, forks 177 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:30.462043+00:00)

## What it is
Veneur is a distributed, fault-tolerant metrics pipeline written in Go that implements the DogStatsD and SSF protocols. It aggregates metrics from many hosts and forwards them to one or more downstream sinks, and can act as a global aggregator for histograms, sets, and counters.

## Use cases
- aggregate metrics from hundreds of hosts before sending to a backend
- replace a local statsd/datadog agent with a faster proxy
- globally aggregate histograms and sets across a fleet
- route metrics to multiple observability backends
- collect SSF traces and metrics from services
- buffer and forward metrics reliably with fault tolerance

## When to choose
- you run a large fleet emitting DogStatsD or SSF data and need aggregation or fan-out
- you want a vendor-agnostic metrics proxy with multiple sink outputs
- you need global aggregation of histograms, sets, or counters

## When to avoid
- you need a full metrics visualization or alerting platform
- your stack uses protocols other than DogStatsD/SSF without custom sinks
- you want a actively evolving project - development has slowed

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, streaming, proxy
- domain: monitoring, microservices
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: dogstatsd, metrics-pipeline, ssf, global-aggregation, observability, datadog, devops, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- stripe/veneur (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.462043+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 2026-08-30T03:29:37.853081+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/stripe/veneur (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.462043+00:00, sha 4260f22d9628)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.