RudderStack
Collect, unify, transform, and store your customer data, and route it to a wide range of common, popular marketing, sales, and product tools (alternative to Segment).
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 60% of tracked projects; popularity more than 65%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 4.5k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v1.88.0 · 22 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Elastic-2.0 |
| Built with | Docker, K8S, Go, Nodejs |
Is RudderStack actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 426 commits, of which 143 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 48 commits a month.
The most recent tagged release, v1.88.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
RudderStack ranks #12 of 33 in Analytics, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What RudderStack actually does
RudderStack is an open-source customer data platform that collects event data from various sources, transforms it, and routes it to multiple third-party marketing and analytics destinations. It serves as a self-hosted alternative to proprietary routing services like Segment. The software is built using Go and Node.js.
Best fit: Teams that need to control their customer data pipeline locally while syncing events to numerous SaaS marketing and product tools.
Worth knowing: The Elastic-2.0 licence restricts managed service offerings, and configuring complex event routing pipelines introduces a notable operational overhead compared to simpler analytics tools.
Deployment notes
You will typically deploy this via Docker or Kubernetes, requiring persistent storage for state and a reverse proxy to handle incoming webhook traffic securely.
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