# redpanda-data/redpanda — health index 49/100 (At risk)

> Inspection of the public repository redpanda-data/redpanda by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 49 out of 100, placing it in the At risk band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/redpanda-data/redpanda
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/redpanda-data/redpanda/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/r/redpanda-data/redpanda.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-20
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.16.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 91/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 89/100 | Excellent |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 92/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 48/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 88/100 | Excellent |

High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy applies a 75% multiplier to weighted overall health and gives it an At risk ceiling of 49.

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM! |
| Homepage | https://redpanda.com |
| Primary language | C++ |
| Stars | 12,357 |
| Forks | 771 |
| Created | 2020-11-02 |
| Last push | 2026-07-20 |
| Latest release | v26.1.13 |
| Commits (last year) | 9,059 |
| Bus factor | 8 |
| Topics | kafka, cpp, kubernetes, go, streaming, redpanda, containers, realtime, event-driven, microservices, storage-engine, stream-processing, seastar |

## Vitality — 96/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 9059 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 22 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 3 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~10.2 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 91/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 96/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 12,357 stars |
| Forks | partial | 24.1 / 25 | 771 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 11.8 / 15 | 134 watchers |

### Community health — 86/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 89/100 (Excellent)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 97/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | met | 54 / 54 | 8 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 19.8 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 12% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 17 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 94/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 45.6 / 46.8 | 98% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 33.6 / 38.2 | 15929/18120 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 75/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 19.9 / 25 | 593 followers of redpanda-data |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 132 public repos, account ~7 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 92/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 94/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 30 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .golangci.yml, .ruff.toml |
| Pre-commit hooks | met | 9.6 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 14 out of 14 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://redpanda.com |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 13 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 48/100 (At risk)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 48/100 (At risk)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Pinned-Dependencies. Remaining weights renormalized. High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy applies a 75% multiplier to Security posture and gives it an At risk ceiling of 49.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 3 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 14 out of 14 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 17 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | met | 5 / 5 | project is fuzzed |
| License | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 22 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | excluded | 0 / 5 | internal error: internal error: invalid Dockerfile |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 225 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 75/100 (Good)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | partial | 75 / 100 | Russia: contributor_organization (1) |

## AI Readiness — 88/100 (Excellent)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 75/100 (Good)

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

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | .github/copilot-instructions.md, CLAUDE.md, src/go/rpk/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 96/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | src/go/rpk/Makefile, tests/go/go-kafka-serde/Makefile, tests/go/kgo-verifier/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .golangci.yml, .ruff.toml |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | src/go/rpk/pkg/cli/transform/template/js/tsconfig.json, tests/pyrightconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | partial | 5 / 8 | dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | excluded | 0 / 10 | internal error: internal error: invalid Dockerfile |

### Code legibility for models — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | C++ (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.1 / 55 | 89/5292 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | proto/redpanda/core/admin/internal/cloud_topics/v1/level_zero.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/internal/cloud_topics/v1/metastore.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/internal/datalake/v1/datalake.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/internal/shadow_link_internal/v1/shadow_link_internal.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/internal/v1/breakglass.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/internal/v1/debug.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/v2/broker.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/v2/cluster.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/v2/features.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/v2/iceberg.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/v2/kafka_connections.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/v2/security.proto, proto/redpanda/core/admin/v2/shadow_link.proto, proto/redpanda/core/common/v1/acl.proto, proto/redpanda/core/common/v1/ntp.proto, proto/redpanda/core/common/v1/security_types.proto, proto/redpanda/core/common/v1/tls.proto, proto/redpanda/core/pbgen/options.proto, proto/redpanda/core/pbgen/rpc.proto, proto/redpanda/core/rest/iceberg.proto, proto/redpanda/core/testing/example.proto, proto/redpanda/datalake/date.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/confluent/meta.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/confluent/types/decimal.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/calendar_period.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/color.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/date.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/datetime.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/dayofweek.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/decimal.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/expr.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/fraction.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/interval.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/latlng.proto, src/go/rpk/pkg/serde/embed/protobuf/google/type/localized_text.proto, 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src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/repeated_custom_options_normalized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/repeated_custom_options_sanitized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_ordering_input.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_ordering_normalized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_ordering_sanitized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_proto2_input.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_proto2_normalized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_proto2_sanitized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_proto3_input.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_proto3_normalized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/service_proto3_sanitized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/syntax_proto2_input.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/syntax_proto2_normalized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/syntax_proto2_sanitized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/syntax_proto3_input.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/syntax_proto3_normalized.proto, src/v/pandaproxy/schema_registry/test/testdata/protobuf/syntax_proto3_sanitized.proto, src/v/redpanda/admin/tests/aip_test_message.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/confluent/meta.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/confluent/types/decimal.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/calendar_period.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/color.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/date.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/datetime.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/dayofweek.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/decimal.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/expr.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/fraction.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/interval.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/latlng.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/localized_text.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/money.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/month.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/phone_number.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/postal_address.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/quaternion.proto, src/v/schema/protobuf/google/type/timeofday.proto, src/v/serde/protobuf/tests/codegen_test.proto, src/v/serde/protobuf/tests/test_messages_edition2023.proto, src/v/serde/protobuf/tests/three.proto, src/v/serde/protobuf/tests/two.proto, tests/nodejs/protobuf-serde/proto/example.proto, tests/protobuf/payload.proto, tests/rptest/tests/datalake/schemas/linear.proto |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- Could not fetch pypi package 'rptest' from its registry
- GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository

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