dagucloud/dagu

Self-hostable workflow orchestrator for teams whose main work isn't orchestration. Declarative YAML over your scripts, SSH commands, containers, etc; keep workflows separate from business logic. One binary, no database, runs on limited H/W resources. Alternative to Airflow / Cron / Job Scheduler.

DevOps & infrastructureGo#cron#workflow-engine#workflow-scheduler#workflow-orchestration#devops

2.4 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

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About the project

Local-first workflow orchestrator: a single binary with a Web UI and no external database, defining DAGs in YAML over existing scripts, Docker, Kubernetes, and SSH commands.

Useful for

Run an ETL pipeline from SQL scripts and dbt with retries and run history
Schedule ffmpeg video transcoding across multiple workers via cron syntax
Execute commands on remote servers over SSH with logs and notifications

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

10 stars today. The usual pace is 4 per day, so that's 2.8× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 2.1× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +13 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 3,973
Stars in a day: 10
Forks: 332
Issues and pull requests: 2,713
Watchers: 21
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: v2.16.4 · September 11, 2026
Created: April 22, 2022
Last push: September 13, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 13, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +13 stars

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