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CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software) is a Linux Foundation project that develops metrics, methodologies, software, and practitioner guides for measuring and improving open source community health and sustainability. It produces a metrics catalog organized into focus areas (Common, DEI, Risk, Value, Evolution) and metrics models, along with open source software (Augur, 8Knot, GrimoireLab) that ingests data from Git, GitHub, GitLab, mailing lists, and other community platforms to compute the metrics. CHAOSS-aligned SaaS services such as OSS Compass and Bitergia Analytics also expose the metrics for adopters who do not want to host the software themselves.

4 APIs 15 Features
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APIs

CHAOSS Augur REST API

Augur is a CHAOSS reference implementation that collects data from GitHub, GitLab, mailing lists, and other community sources, and exposes a REST API for querying CHAOSS-aligned...

CHAOSS Metrics Catalog

The CHAOSS Metrics catalog is a community-maintained, structured reference of community-health metrics organized into focus areas (Common, DEI, Risk, Value, Evolution) plus metr...

CHAOSS GrimoireLab

GrimoireLab is an open source platform for software development analytics. It pulls data from 30+ data sources (Git, GitHub, GitLab, mailing lists, IRC, Slack, Jira, Bugzilla, e...

CHAOSS 8Knot Dashboard

8Knot is an open source community analytics dashboard built on top of Augur that provides ready-made visualizations of CHAOSS metrics for stakeholders evaluating open source pro...

Features

Community Health Metrics
Metrics Models
DEI Metrics
Risk Metrics
Value Metrics
Evolution Metrics
Common Metrics
Open Source Software
Practitioner Guides
Working Groups
Reference Implementations
REST API (Augur)
Data Pipeline (GrimoireLab)
Dashboards (8Knot, Bitergia)
SaaS Adopter Services

Use Cases

Open Source Project Health Assessment
Contributor Sustainability Analysis
DEI in Open Source Communities
Open Source Risk and Security Assessment
Open Source Investment ROI
Funding Impact Measurement
Community Onboarding Improvement
Foundation-Level Reporting
OSPO Health Reporting
Maintainer Burnout Detection

Integrations

GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Git
Mailing Lists
Jira
Bugzilla
Discourse
Slack
IRC
Stack Exchange
Meetup
Linux Foundation
CNCF
Apache Software Foundation
OpenSSF

Resources

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Website
Website
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Documentation
Documentation
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GitHub
GitHub
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WorkingGroups
WorkingGroups
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Events
Events
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Blog
Blog
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PractitionerGuides
PractitionerGuides
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ParentOrganization
ParentOrganization
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GettingStarted
GettingStarted
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Community
Community
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Slack
Slack
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YouTube
YouTube
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn
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