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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.
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15 Features
Analytics Community Health DEI Linux Foundation Metrics Observability Open Source Risk Sustainability
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Git
Mailing Lists
Jira
Bugzilla
Discourse
Slack
IRC
Stack Exchange
Meetup
Linux Foundation
CNCF
Apache Software Foundation
OpenSSF
Sources
aid: chaoss
name: CHAOSS
kind: opensource
description: >-
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.
type: Index
position: Producer
access: Open Source
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Analytics
- Community Health
- DEI
- Linux Foundation
- Metrics
- Observability
- Open Source
- Risk
- Sustainability
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-23'
url: >-
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chaoss/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: chaoss:augur-api
name: CHAOSS Augur REST API
description: >-
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 metrics on
repositories, contributors, issues, pull requests, releases, and
more. The API powers downstream analytics tools and dashboards
including 8Knot.
humanURL: https://oss-augur.readthedocs.io/
baseURL: https://ai.chaoss.io/api
tags:
- Augur
- Community Health
- Metrics
- REST
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://oss-augur.readthedocs.io/
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/chaoss/augur
- type: API
url: https://oss-augur.readthedocs.io/en/dev/rest-api/api.html
- aid: chaoss:metrics-catalog
name: CHAOSS Metrics Catalog
description: >-
The CHAOSS Metrics catalog is a community-maintained, structured
reference of community-health metrics organized into focus areas
(Common, DEI, Risk, Value, Evolution) plus metrics models that
compose them. The catalog is openly licensed and published on the
CHAOSS website and the chaoss/metrics GitHub repository, and is
consumed by Augur, GrimoireLab, OSS Compass, Bitergia Analytics,
and other implementations.
humanURL: https://chaoss.community/metrics/
tags:
- Catalog
- Documentation
- Metrics
- Models
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://chaoss.community/kbtopic/all-metrics/
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/chaoss/wg-metrics-models
- type: MetricsRepository
url: https://github.com/chaoss/community
- aid: chaoss:grimoirelab
name: CHAOSS GrimoireLab
description: >-
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, etc.) and
provides a Python toolkit (Perceval, Sortinghat, GrimoireELK) plus
a Kibana-based dashboard, exposing CHAOSS metrics for community
health analysis.
humanURL: https://chaoss.github.io/grimoirelab/
tags:
- Analytics
- Data Pipeline
- GrimoireLab
- Kibana
- Metrics
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://chaoss.github.io/grimoirelab/
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab
- aid: chaoss:8knot
name: CHAOSS 8Knot Dashboard
description: >-
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 project health.
humanURL: https://github.com/oss-aspen/8knot
tags:
- Dashboard
- Visualization
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://github.com/oss-aspen/8knot
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/oss-aspen/8knot
common:
- type: Website
url: https://chaoss.community/
- type: Documentation
name: CHAOSS Documentation
description: Official documentation for CHAOSS metrics and software.
url: https://chaoss.community/kbtopic/all-metrics/
- type: GitHub
name: CHAOSS GitHub
description: Source code and repositories for CHAOSS.
url: https://github.com/chaoss
- type: WorkingGroups
url: https://chaoss.community/working-groups/
- type: Events
url: https://chaoss.community/events/
- type: Blog
url: https://chaoss.community/news-blog/
- type: PractitionerGuides
url: https://chaoss.community/practitioner-guides/
- type: ParentOrganization
url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://chaoss.community/get-started/
- type: Community
url: https://chaoss.community/participate/
- type: Slack
url: https://chaoss.community/connect/
- type: YouTube
url: https://www.youtube.com/c/CHAOSScommunity
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chaoss-community/
- type: X
url: https://x.com/chaossproj
- name: Features
type: Features
data:
- name: Community Health Metrics
- name: Metrics Models
- name: DEI Metrics
- name: Risk Metrics
- name: Value Metrics
- name: Evolution Metrics
- name: Common Metrics
- name: Open Source Software
- name: Practitioner Guides
- name: Working Groups
- name: Reference Implementations
- name: REST API (Augur)
- name: Data Pipeline (GrimoireLab)
- name: Dashboards (8Knot, Bitergia)
- name: SaaS Adopter Services
- name: UseCases
type: UseCases
data:
- name: Open Source Project Health Assessment
- name: Contributor Sustainability Analysis
- name: DEI in Open Source Communities
- name: Open Source Risk and Security Assessment
- name: Open Source Investment ROI
- name: Funding Impact Measurement
- name: Community Onboarding Improvement
- name: Foundation-Level Reporting
- name: OSPO Health Reporting
- name: Maintainer Burnout Detection
- name: Tools
type: Tools
data:
- name: Augur
- name: GrimoireLab
- name: 8Knot
- name: Bitergia Analytics
- name: OSS Compass
- name: Cauldron
- name: Sortinghat
- name: Perceval
- name: GrimoireELK
- name: WorkingGroups
type: WorkingGroups
data:
- name: Common Metrics
- name: DEI Metrics
- name: Risk Metrics
- name: Value Metrics
- name: Evolution Metrics
- name: Software (Augur and GrimoireLab)
- name: Education
- name: Practitioner Guides
- name: Integrations
type: Integrations
data:
- name: GitHub
- name: GitLab
- name: Bitbucket
- name: Git
- name: Mailing Lists
- name: Jira
- name: Bugzilla
- name: Discourse
- name: Slack
- name: IRC
- name: Stack Exchange
- name: Meetup
- name: Linux Foundation
- name: CNCF
- name: Apache Software Foundation
- name: OpenSSF
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: [email protected]