fluent/fluentd vs pluginaweek/state_machine
fluent/fluentd shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, fluentd shows healthier maintenance signals than state_machine. fluentd rates Healthy overall while state_machine rates Mixed. fluentd last saw a commit 1 month ago with 10+ active contributors, while state_machine last saw a commit 2 years ago with 10+ active contributors. fluentd is Apache-2.0-licensed while state_machine is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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fluent/fluentd →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
pluginaweek/state_machine →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| fluentd | state_machine | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,530 | 3,724 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 136 | 91 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 55% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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