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n8n-io/n8n vs open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, n8n and opentelemetry-js both show healthy maintenance signals. n8n was committed to today with 42+ active contributors, while opentelemetry-js was committed to 1 day ago with 23+ active contributors. n8n is Other-licensed while opentelemetry-js is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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n8n-io/n8n

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other)

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit today
  • 42+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 13% of recent commits)
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Scorecard: known vulnerabilities detected (scored 0/10 by OpenSSF)
  • Last commit today
  • 23+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 30% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

n8nopentelemetry-js
Stars194,2623,411
Last committoday1d ago
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Open issues1,482234
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%70%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles1
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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