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| Field | Miller | act | Beszel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Universal, MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor | GitHub | Universal |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 10049 | 72435 | 26480 |
| Last activity | October 21, 2026 | — | October 20, 2026 |
| Install complexity | EASY | — | متوسط / Medium |
| Category | Workflow, Data | Testing, Git, DevOps | DevOps, Monitoring |
| Best use | Ideal for developers, data analysts, and operators who need to clean a CSV export, inspect JSON Lines, or summarize a large file from the terminal without starting a Python project. Use it for quick, repeatable file processing; concurrent transactions and advanced visual analysis still call for a database or complementary analytics tool. | 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 individual developer or small team running a VPS, home server, or a few Docker hosts and needing a simple dashboard, history, and alerts. Its value is combining host and container metrics in a self-hosted hub. It is not a full logs-and-traces observability platform. |