StackStorm

Event-driven automation for operations teams, often called IFTTT for Ops, used for auto-remediation, incident response and deployments.

6.6k stars, 797 forks Python On GitHub since April 2014

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What is StackStorm?

StackStorm listens for events from monitoring, chat and cloud services, and runs actions or multi-step workflows in response. A rules engine maps triggers to actions, and the StackStorm Exchange offers about 160 integration packs with thousands of ready actions. Typical uses are restarting a failed service after a monitoring alert, running diagnostics and posting results to Slack, or rolling a deployment forward or back. ChatOps lets engineers run the same actions from a chat channel.

Good fit if

  • Your on-call team wants alerts from Nagios, Sensu or similar tools to trigger fixes automatically.
  • You already have many scripts and want a rules engine and audit trail around them.
  • You want to run operations commands from Slack or another chat tool.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want a newer engine with a lighter install: Dagu or Kestra.
  • You need business app integrations rather than infrastructure: n8n.

Before you adopt it

StackStorm is Apache-2.0, and every feature is in the repository. It installs with a script on a clean 64-bit Linux server; the repository has no Docker files of its own. Development is slow but continuing, with a handful of contributors in the last three months.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

StackStorm health: is it still maintained?

48 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    9 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 26 October 2026.
    12 / 30
  • Contributors
    4 people wrote the 9 commits of the last 90 days; the most active wrote 44% of them.
    9 / 20
  • Releases
    1 release in the last 12 months; the latest, v3.9.0, on 12 January 2026.
    7 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 22% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 2 hours.
    14 / 20
  • Security practices
    OpenSSF Scorecard 5.5 of 10.
    6 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

StackStorm license: is it open source?

StackStorm uses Apache-2.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. April 2014First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayApache-2.0.

How to run StackStorm yourself

Docker
No Docker files in the repository
Compose file
None in the repository
Setup effort
Not rated: no compose file to judge from
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
English only

Install instructions: stackstorm.com or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about StackStorm

Is StackStorm open source?

Yes. StackStorm is published under Apache-2.0, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is StackStorm still maintained?

Its health score is 48 of 100 (actively developed). It had 9 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 26 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 12 January 2026.

How do I run StackStorm?

The repository has no Docker files or app builds, so you build it from source. The README on GitHub has the steps.

What are the alternatives to StackStorm?

Close alternatives in the Workflow automation category include Kestra, Prefect, Apache Airflow.