Kadira APM is now open source

Today we’re happy to announce that we have open sourced the code for the Kadira APM product for monitoring the performance of Meteor applications!

Before I dive into the details, a bit of background on our acquisition of Kadira APM and why we’re open sourcing the code:

Why we’re open sourcing Kadira

We heard in December 2016 that the Kadira APM service was scheduled to be shut down in early 2017. Because we know how important this tool is to everybody running Meteor apps in production, we moved quickly to acquire the code to ensure that everybody in the community could continue using it forever.

We worked with Kadira to extend the shut-down date of the current Kadira APM service to May 15th to give everyone a chance to migrate to another solution, whether one based on this original source code or by using the new, commercial Meteor APM we’ve integrated into our Galaxy hosting service.

How to get the Kadira code

We have made the original Kadira code available under the MIT License at this GitHub repo — https://github.com/kadira-open/kadira-server. This license means that anyone can use or modify the source code to self-host Kadira or even start a commercial project.

As the code we’re using for our commercial Meteor APM product has diverged from Kadira’s original code, we will not maintain or host an active Kadira open source project ourselves. This means the repo will be read-only: we will not be answering any opened issues or accepting pull requests.

That being said, we are excited that some maintainers have already stepped forward to create a community fork, and we’re doing what we can to help kick off that effort with Arunoda’s help. We look forward to see how the project develops under their leadership and will make sure to update you on their progress in this publication!