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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
AnalyticsCommunity HealthDEILinux FoundationMetricsObservabilityOpen SourceRiskSustainability

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
👥
GitHub
GitHub
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WorkingGroups
WorkingGroups
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Events
Events
📰
Blog
Blog
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PractitionerGuides
PractitionerGuides
🔗
ParentOrganization
ParentOrganization
🚀
GettingStarted
GettingStarted
🔗
Community
Community
🔗
Slack
Slack
👥
YouTube
YouTube
🔗
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
🔗
X
X

Sources

apis.yml Raw ↑
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]