Dagu
Powerful Cron alternative with a Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in a declarative YAML format.
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Still maintained? Yes: 638 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.24.0 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Dagu quick facts
- Health score
- 95/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 4,500
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.24.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Dagu is a local-first workflow engine for operations and internal automation. It is open source and self-hostable: a single binary with a built-in Web UI, no external database or message broker, running on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Define DAGs in a declarative YAML format. It natively supports shell commands, Docker containers, Kubernetes Jobs, remote commands via SSH, and more through Dagu Actions."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Dagu scores 95/100, #7 of 32 in Automation: 638 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.24.0, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 4,500 stars add 14.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 5.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
638 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.24.0 released 3 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 14.6 / 20
4.5k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 638
- Last 90 days
- 1,689
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #7 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between Healthchecks (#6) and Cronmaster (#8) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | v2.24.0 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 4,500 |
| Open issues | 115 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | dagucloud/dagu ↗ |
Dagu vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Dagu (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Activepieces | 98 | 25k | MIT | today |
| Dagu (this tool) | 95 | 4.5k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| gocron | 91 | 625 | MIT | 7 days ago |
| OliveTin | 84 | 3.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 6 days ago |
| µTask | 55 | 1.4k | BSD-3-Clause | 3 months ago |
Dagu: common questions
Is Dagu still maintained?
Dagu had 638 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v2.24.0, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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