StackStorm
Event-driven automation for every organization.
Overview
StackStorm is a powerful, open-source platform for event-driven automation. It connects your apps, services, and workflows through a flexible system of sensors, triggers, rules, and actions. This allows you to define 'if this, then that' style rules to automate responses to events from your infrastructure. It's highly extensible and used for auto-remediation, security response, ChatOps, and complex CI/CD workflows.
✨ Key Features
- Event-driven automation (Sensors, Triggers, Rules)
- Workflow engine (Orquesta)
- Extensive integration packs
- ChatOps integration (Hubot, Slack)
- Role-based access control
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Powerful and flexible event-driven rules engine.
- Completely open source and highly extensible.
- Strong ChatOps capabilities.
Unique Value: Provides a generic, open-source framework for wiring together all IT tools and automating any process based on events.
🎯 Use Cases (5)
✅ Best For
- Automatically restarting a failed service detected by Nagios.
- Running a security scan on a suspicious IP address reported in a Slack channel.
- Orchestrating a blue-green deployment.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Users who require a fully managed, SaaS solution without any self-hosting.
- Simple configuration management (though it can integrate with tools like Ansible).
🏆 Alternatives
More powerful and flexible than simpler tools like Relay.sh, but with a steeper learning curve. More focused on event-driven logic than configuration management tools like Ansible.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Fully featured and free.
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