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VERDICT

Should I use DevStats (CNCF)?

(none) - devstats.cncf.io

Depends. Free, read-only dashboards for tracking CNCF open source project activity — useful if that is your job, but not a product you buy. If you want engineering analytics for your own private team, this is the wrong DevStats entirely.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~20 public sources; several cover unrelated 'DevStats' products sharing the name, so CNCF-specific evidence is medium quality.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo evidence on support.
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

CNCF project dashboards

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
Self-hosted (your own project)$0

Best for

  • CNCF project maintainers
  • OSS community managers
  • Public contribution dashboards
  • Academic OSS research

Not for

  • Engineering leaders measuring private team productivity — it only sees public CNCF repos
  • Non-CNCF open source projects without serious self-hosting effort
  • Buyers wanting a supported, SLA-backed product
  • Anyone comparing to the commercial $15/mo DevStats — different product, same name

Gotchas - check before you buy

high

Accuracy: CNCF's own site warns stats can be wrong; don't treat them as authoritative.

medium

Name collision:, .io, .gg, .info are unrelated products. Confirm which you're evaluating.

medium

Self-hosting is non-trivial: Kubernetes/Helm deployment; migration docs show real operational burden.

medium

Guess: no support SLAs — community-maintained open source; expect forum-level help only.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Free and open source, created and maintained by CNCF
  • Public Grafana dashboards cover the whole CNCF ecosystem
  • Deep Git contribution analytics across CNCF projects
  • Cited in academic research on OSS community health
  • Example repo exists for self-hosting a single project

Cons

  • Site itself carries a prominent data accuracy warning
  • Only tracks CNCF projects; nothing else is covered
  • Read-only batch tool; no real-time or SDLC-wide signals
  • Self-hosting means Kubernetes, Postgres, cron — heavy setup
  • No security page published on the site

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/25/2026 - 12 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x6review x3security x2news x1

Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 12

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. Free; nothing costs less.
  • Ease of use: 2/5. Browsing is free; self-hosting is heavy.
  • Feature depth: 3/5. Deep Git stats, narrow CNCF scope.
  • Support quality. No evidence on support.
  • Security posture: 3/5. Public data only; no security page.
  • $0 Price Free, open-source CNCF project
  • CNCF only Scope Read-only Git analytics for CNCF projects
  • Grafana Interface Public dashboards, batch-updated
  • ⚠ Warning Data quality Site displays a data accuracy warning

Pricing

CNCF project dashboards

$0

  • Public Grafana dashboards per CNCF project
  • Batch-updated, read-only

Self-hosted (your own project)

$0

  • Example single-project deployment repo
  • Requires Kubernetes, Postgres, cron

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

feedback is sparse: users enjoy contribution visibility, while CNCF's own site warns the stats may be inaccurate.

“Finally seeing my contributions on DevStats!”
LinkedIn, Pavan Gudiwada

Companies that use it

  • KEDA (CNCF project)⁶
  • K3s (SUSE)
  • Kagent
  • CD Foundation
  • Network Service Mesh
Full analysis

Based on ~20 public sources; several cover unrelated 'DevStats' products sharing the name, so CNCF-specific evidence is medium quality.

Free CNCF dashboards for open source project stats. Wrong tool for private team analytics — and not the $15/mo DevStats.

Methodology

Based on ~20 public sources; several cover unrelated 'DevStats' products sharing the name, so CNCF-specific evidence is medium quality.

Sources

  1. cncf/devstats GitHub repogithub.com
    official
  2. DevStats (CNCF) sitedevstats.cncf.io
    official
  3. CDviz vs CNCF DevStatscdviz.dev
    review
  4. CNCF Q&A with DevStats creatorcncf.io
    news
  5. DevStats security page checkdevstats.cncf.io
    security
  6. KEDA DevStats dashboardkeda.devstats.cncf.io
    official
  7. Example single-project deploymentgithub.com
    official
  8. All CNCF DevStats dashboardsall.devstats.cncf.io
    official
  9. LinkedIn user post on DevStatslinkedin.com
    review
  10. Commercial DevStats pricing (different product)devstats.com
    official
  11. ACM paper on OSS community metricsdl.acm.org
    review
  12. OpenSSF Best Practices entrybestpractices.dev
    security

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