Software health reportschema 0.12.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-07-18 03:31 UTC

grafana / worldping-blackbox-sidecar

Synthetic Monitoring agent

GoApache-2.0★ 218 stars⑂ 32 forkssince Feb 2020View on GitHub ↗

#grafana #monitoring #prometheus #blackbox-exporter #synthetic-monitoring #golang #hacktoberfest #grafana-synthetic-monitoring #k6

grafana/worldping-blackbox-sidecar holds a health index of 94 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Vitality (95/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (63/100). It was last updated today. 3 contributors account for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Exceptional

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met

Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps

Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable

Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended

Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas

At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution

Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 81 is calibrated to 94 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Grafana LabsOrganization

7,072 followers589 public repossince Apr 2014

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/grafana/synthetic-monitoring-agentpoints to another repo — not scored	v0.61.0	-	196	4 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

95Exceptional · 21% of overall

Development activity

99Exceptional

How it's scored

36/36	Push recency — last push 0 days ago
34.6/36	Commit cadence — 50/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 470 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	470
human_commit_share	—
days_since_last_push	0
active_weeks_last_year	50

Release discipline

90Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 4 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~8.4 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

Inputs used

releases_count	100
latest_release_tag	v0.61.0
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	4
mean_days_between_releases	8.4

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

63Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

62Moderate

How it's scored

37.9/60	Stars — 218 stars
12.4/25	Forks — 32 forks
11.8/15	Watchers — 134 watchers

Inputs used

forks	32
stars	218
watchers	134
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

65Good

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	—
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

83Excellent · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

75Good

How it's scored

36/54	Bus factor — 3 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
15.8/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 30% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 28 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 14 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	3
contributors_sampled	28
top_contributor_share	0.297

Issue & PR responsiveness

75Good

How it's scored

25.5/42	Issue resolution — 61% of issues closed
25.1/30	PR acceptance — 1,471/1,758 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
15/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed

Inputs used

merged_prs	1,471
open_issues	49
closed_issues	76
prs_merged_7d	—
prs_decided_7d	—
prs_merged_30d	—
prs_decided_30d	—
issue_closed_ratio	0.608
closed_unmerged_prs	287
first_time_authors_30d	—
first_time_prs_merged_30d	—
first_time_prs_decided_30d	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

100Exceptional

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
25/25	Owner reach — 7,072 followers of grafana
25/25	Track record — 589 public repos, account ~12 yr old

Inputs used

followers	7,072
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	—
owner_login	grafana
public_repos	589
account_age_days	4,485

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

80Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

84Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 7 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .golangci.yaml
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

75Good

How it's scored

30/30	README
25/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 9 topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	grafana, monitoring, prometheus, blackbox-exporter, synthetic-monitoring, golang, hacktoberfest, grafana-synthetic-monitoring, k6
has_wiki	no
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	yes
has_description	yes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

81Excellent · 16% of overall

Security posture

81Excellent

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
3.8/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
7.5/7.5	Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 14 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
5/5	Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
5/5	SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
5/5	Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
7.5/7.5	Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
7.5/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	17
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	1
scorecard_aggregate	8.1

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

69Good · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

1Critical

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
0/40	Legible commit history — no data

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	—
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

97Exceptional

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .golangci.yaml
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no data
5/8	Automated maintenance — dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	—
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

99Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
54.3/55	Manageable file sizes — 2/159 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	439,682
source_files_sampled	159
oversized_source_files	2

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional

How it's scored

40/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — pkg/pb/synthetic_monitoring/checks.proto
0/20	MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40	Runnable examples — examples

Inputs used

example_dirs	examples
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	pkg/pb/synthetic_monitoring/checks.proto
interfaces_expected_of	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

218GitHub stars

28contributors

470commits, last 12 months

0days since last push

100releases

3bus factor

49open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

go package 'github.com/grafana/synthetic-monitoring-agent' points at a different repository (https://github.com/grafana/synthetic-monitoring-agent); excluded from ecosystem scoring

More detail

OpenSSF Scorecard 8.1 / 10

8.1aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-07-18 03:31 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
5	Branch-Protection	branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
10	CI-Tests	30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
10	Code-Review	all changesets reviewed
10	Contributors	project has 14 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
10	Pinned-Dependencies	all dependencies are pinned
10	SAST	SAST tool is run on all commits
10	Security-Policy	security policy file detected
0	Signed-Releases	Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
10	Token-Permissions	GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
10	Vulnerabilities	0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 41

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/go-kit/kit	`v0.13.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt	`v0.6.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/gogo/googleapis	`v1.4.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/gogo/protobuf	`v1.3.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/golang/snappy	`v1.0.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/miekg/dns	`v1.1.72`	go.mod
Go	github.com/mmcloughlin/geohash	`v0.10.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/mwitkow/go-conntrack	`v0.0.0-20190716064945-2f068394615f`	go.mod
Go	github.com/pkg/errors	`v0.9.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter	`v0.27.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.23.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_model	`v0.6.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/common	`v0.67.5`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus/prometheus	`v0.311.3`	go.mod
Go	github.com/rs/zerolog	`v1.35.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/tonobo/mtr	`v0.1.1-0.20210422192847-1c17592ae70b`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.57.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.22.0`	go.mod
Go	google.golang.org/grpc	`v1.82.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/KimMachineGun/automemlimit	`v0.7.5`	go.mod
Go	github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3	`v3.5.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/alecthomas/units	`v0.0.0-20240927000941-0f3dac36c52b`	go.mod
Go	github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache	`v0.0.0-20260422231931-4d751bb6e37c`	go.mod
Go	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop	`v1.1.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/go-kit/log	`v0.2.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/gogo/status	`v1.1.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/grafana/gsm-api-go-client	`v0.3.2`	go.mod
Go	github.com/grafana/loki/pkg/push	`v0.0.0-20250903135404-0b2d0b070e96`	go.mod
Go	github.com/jpillora/backoff	`v1.0.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/maypok86/otter/v2	`v2.3.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/v2	`v2.23.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/patrickmn/go-cache	`v2.1.0+incompatible`	go.mod
Go	github.com/prometheus-community/pro-bing	`v0.9.1`	go.mod
Go	github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync/v4	`v4.5.0`	go.mod
Go	github.com/quasilyte/go-ruleguard/dsl	`v0.3.23`	go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`v1.15.0`	go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20260611194520-c48552f49976`	go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	go.mod
Go	kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/libcap/cap	`v1.2.78`	go.mod

All dependencies 87

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 40 direct and 47 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Go	github.com/alecthomas/units	`v0.0.0-20240927000941-0f3dac36c52b`	direct
Go	github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache	`v0.0.0-20260422231931-4d751bb6e37c`	direct
Go	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop	`v1.1.0`	direct
Go	github.com/go-kit/kit	`v0.13.0`	direct
Go	github.com/go-kit/log	`v0.2.1`	direct
Go	github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt	`v0.6.1`	direct
Go	github.com/gogo/googleapis	`v1.4.1`	direct
Go	github.com/gogo/protobuf	`v1.3.2`	direct
Go	github.com/gogo/status	`v1.1.1`	direct
Go	github.com/golang/snappy	`v1.0.0`	direct
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	direct
Go	github.com/grafana/gsm-api-go-client	`v0.3.2`	direct
Go	github.com/grafana/loki/pkg/push	`v0.0.0-20250903135404-0b2d0b070e96`	direct
Go	github.com/jpillora/backoff	`v1.0.0`	direct
Go	github.com/kimmachinegun/automemlimit	`v0.7.5`	direct
Go	github.com/masterminds/semver/v3	`v3.5.0`	direct
Go	github.com/maypok86/otter/v2	`v2.3.0`	direct
Go	github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/v2	`v2.23.1`	direct
Go	github.com/miekg/dns	`v1.1.72`	direct
Go	github.com/mmcloughlin/geohash	`v0.10.0`	direct
Go	github.com/mwitkow/go-conntrack	`v0.0.0-20190716064945-2f068394615f`	direct
Go	github.com/patrickmn/go-cache	`v2.1.0+incompatible`	direct
Go	github.com/pkg/errors	`v0.9.1`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus-community/pro-bing	`v0.9.1`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter	`v0.27.0`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_golang	`v1.23.2`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/client_model	`v0.6.2`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/common	`v0.67.5`	direct
Go	github.com/prometheus/prometheus	`v0.311.3`	direct
Go	github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync/v4	`v4.5.0`	direct
Go	github.com/quasilyte/go-ruleguard/dsl	`v0.3.23`	direct
Go	github.com/rs/zerolog	`v1.35.1`	direct
Go	github.com/spf13/afero	`v1.15.0`	direct
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20260611194520-c48552f49976`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.57.0`	direct
Go	golang.org/x/sync	`v0.22.0`	direct
Go	google.golang.org/grpc	`v1.82.0`	direct
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	direct
Go	kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/libcap/cap	`v1.2.78`	direct
Go	cel.dev/expr	`v0.25.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/andybalholm/brotli	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4	`v4.13.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/apapsch/go-jsonmerge/v2	`v2.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/armon/consul-api	`0.0.0-20180202201655-eb2c6b5be1b6`	indirect
Go	github.com/beorn7/perks	`v1.0.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/buger/goterm	`v1.0.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2	`v2.3.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/davecgh/go-spew	`v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc`	indirect
Go	github.com/dennwc/varint	`v1.0.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5	`v5.3.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/golang/protobuf	`v1.5.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/golangci/goconst	`0.0.0-20180610141641-041c5f2b40f3`	indirect
Go	github.com/golangci/gocyclo	`0.0.0-20180528144436-0a533e8fa43d`	indirect
Go	github.com/golangci/golangci-lint	`1.37.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/golangci/prealloc	`0.0.0-20180630174525-215b22d4de21`	indirect
Go	github.com/google/cel-go	`v0.25.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/grafana/regexp	`v0.0.0-20250905093917-f7b3be9d1853`	indirect
Go	github.com/jmoiron/sqlx	`1.2.1-0.20190826204134-d7d95172beb5`	indirect
Go	github.com/kylelemons/godebug	`v1.1.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-colorable	`v0.1.14`	indirect
Go	github.com/mattn/go-isatty	`v0.0.20`	indirect
Go	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg	`v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822`	indirect
Go	github.com/oapi-codegen/runtime	`v1.4.2`	indirect
Go	github.com/pbnjay/memory	`v0.0.0-20210728143218-7b4eea64cf58`	indirect
Go	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib	`v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2`	indirect
Go	github.com/prometheus/procfs	`v0.16.1`	indirect
Go	github.com/sclevine/agouti	`3.0.0+incompatible`	indirect
Go	github.com/securego/gosec	`0.0.0-20200401082031-e946c8c39989`	indirect
Go	github.com/stoewer/go-strcase	`v1.2.0`	indirect
Go	github.com/tommy-muehle/go-mnd	`1.3.1-0.20200224220436-e6f9a994e8fa`	indirect
Go	github.com/ugorji/go	`1.1.4`	indirect
Go	github.com/unknwon/bra	`0.0.0-20191020212106-9f09ca301444`	indirect
Go	github.com/xordataexchange/crypt	`0.0.3-0.20170626215501-b2862e3d0a77`	indirect
Go	go.uber.org/atomic	`v1.11.0`	indirect
Go	go.yaml.in/yaml/v2	`v2.4.4`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/mod	`v0.37.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/oauth2	`v0.36.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/sys	`v0.47.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.40.0`	indirect
Go	golang.org/x/tools	`v0.47.0`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api	`v0.0.0-20260414002931-afd174a4e478`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc	`v0.0.0-20260414002931-afd174a4e478`	indirect
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.11`	indirect
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v2	`v2.4.0`	indirect
Go	gotest.tools/gotestsum	`1.6.1`	indirect
Go	kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/libcap/psx	`v1.2.78`	indirect

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