Kestra
Event-driven, language-agnostic platform to create, schedule, and monitor workflows. In code. Coordinate data pipelines and tasks such as ETL and ELT.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1,861 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.0.7 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Kestra quick facts
- Health score
- 98/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 30,069
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.0.7, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. It unifies scheduled and event-driven automation behind a declarative, language-agnostic interface. By bringing Infrastructure as Code best practices to your data, process, and microservice pipelines, you can build reliable workflows directly from the UI in just a few lines of YAML, let the built-in AI Copilot write them for you, or generate them straight from your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and others) with Agent Skills."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Kestra scores 98/100, #4 of 32 in Automation: 1,861 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.0.7, 10 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 30,069 stars add 17.9 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 2.1 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
1861 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.0.7 released 10 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 17.9 / 20
30k 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
- 1861
- Last 90 days
- 5,200
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between changedetection.io (#3) and Gotenberg (#5) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v2.0.7 · 10 days ago |
| Stars | 30,069 |
| Open issues | 497 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | kestra-io/kestra ↗ |
Kestra vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Kestra (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Kestra (this tool) | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Discount Bandit | 92 | 760 | GPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| n8n | 90 | 209k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Huginn | 89 | 50k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| StackStorm | 56 | 6.6k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
Kestra: common questions
Is Kestra still maintained?
Kestra had 1,861 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v2.0.7, is from 10 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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