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| Field | act | DuckDB | Gatus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | GitHub | Universal | Universal |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | MIT | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 72437 | 42451 | 12381 |
| Last activity | — | September 28, 2026 | September 24, 2026 |
| Install complexity | — | سهل — حزمة Python أو ملف CLI تنفيذي واحد | سهل إلى متوسط / Easy to moderate |
| Category | Testing, Git, DevOps | Database | Security, DevOps |
| Best use | Best for a developer or small team that repeatedly edits GitHub Actions workflows and wants to test a job before pushing. It provides a local run log, while a final GitHub check remains necessary. It is not suitable when exact hosted-runner parity is required. | Best for an analyst, developer, or small team that needs to inspect and join large data files and rerun analysis locally. It adds reviewable SQL without database-server setup. It is not a multi-user transactional database for many small concurrent writes from separate processes. | Best for an individual developer or small team that wants self-hosted website, API, DNS, and certificate checks with a status page and threshold-based alerts. It combines active checks and simple history in one service. It does not replace resource monitoring, logs, or distributed tracing. |