Introducing Aveloxis: open source health at fleet scale

For a decade, our team built and maintained Augur — the most-used data collection platform in the CHAOSS ecosystem for understanding open source community health. Aveloxis is what we built when we asked: knowing everything we now know, what would Augur look like rebuilt from a blank page?

The answer is a single Go binary that runs three processes, collects from GitHub and GitLab with equal completeness, and comfortably tracks more than 90,000 repositories on one machine — full issue, pull request, commit, and contributor history; CHAOSS metrics; SBOMs; dependency freshness across 12 registries; OpenSSF Scorecards; and vulnerability scanning across every dependency in the fleet.

What's different

Radically simpler operations. Augur needed Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Flower, and Flask. Aveloxis needs PostgreSQL. The work queue is Postgres SKIP LOCKED; monitoring is built in.
Full Augur compatibility. Same schema shape, Augur-byte-compatible contributor IDs, one-command migration (aveloxis import-from-augur), and 100% 8Knot compatibility.
Things Augur never did. CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs, OSV vulnerability scanning, full GitLab parity, git-only repositories, mailing-list ingestion (Apache Pony Mail and lore.kernel.org), and a web GUI with cross-project comparison.
Tested from birth. Every feature ships test-first; the collection pipeline is verified against real forge APIs, not just mocks.

See it, don't take our word

The live demo carries live health snapshots for curated ecosystems — Apache, CNCF, NumFocus, and more — straight from the production fleet. Signing in (free, GitHub or GitLab OAuth) opens the full per-repository analytics: contributor retention, review velocity, dependency health, vulnerability exposure, and side-by-side project comparison.

# Or run your own:
go install github.com/aveloxis/aveloxis/cmd/aveloxis@latest
aveloxis migrate && aveloxis add-key <token> --platform github
aveloxis add-repo https://github.com/your/repo && aveloxis start all

Aveloxis is MIT-licensed and developed in the open at github.com/aveloxis/aveloxis, with support from the University of Missouri and the Sloan Foundation. The story of why we rebuilt is its own read.