xyOps

xyOps is a next-generation, open-source platform that unifies job scheduling, workflow automation, server monitoring, alerting, and incident response into a single, cohesive system. Designed for developers and operations teams, xyOps empowers users to control their entire automation stack without sacrificing data privacy, operational freedom, or visibility. Unlike many commercial solutions, xyOps does not hide critical features behind paywalls, nor does it push telemetry data back to any external service. It is fully open, extensible, and built to run anywhere, from a single server to a fleet of thousands. The platform offers a visual workflow builder, flexible job scheduling with cron-like capabilities, real-time active job tracking with resource limits, comprehensive server monitoring with historical graphs, smart alerting with complex triggers, and an integrated ticketing system for incident response. xyOps also features a unique plugin architecture that supports writing plugins in any language via a simple JSON over STDIO API, eliminating the need for SDKs. Its growing Plugin Marketplace provides ready-made integrations with popular services like GitHub, Slack, Discord, OpenAI, and Atlassian. With a focus on scalability and redundancy, xyOps supports multiple hot backups, automatic failover, and seamless scaling to thousands of worker servers. The entire platform is released under the BSD 3-Clause license, ensuring it remains free and open source forever, with no risk of future license changes or feature restrictions.

Visual Workflow Builder

The visual workflow builder allows you to chain multiple jobs together using conditional logic, pass data and files between steps, and assign actions to events such as notifications or webhooks. You can attach limiters like timeouts, memory caps, and log size caps to each step, run jobs in parallel, or create custom queues for sequential processing.

Flexible Job Scheduler

The job scheduler goes far beyond traditional cron by allowing you to target individual servers or server groups, set multiple schedules per event, define blackout ranges for holidays or downtime, and import existing crontab configurations. It also supports one-time (single-shot) jobs and plugin-based scheduler extensions for custom scheduling logic.

Active Job Tracking

Run any number of jobs in parallel with an optional maximum parallel limit that queues the rest. The system provides real-time progress updates along with estimated time remaining, and you can enforce per-job limits on CPU and memory usage. Jobs can emit their own progress and stats, and you can run custom actions based on the job result.

Smart Alerts

The alerting system features trigger expressions with flexible rules, supporting email, webhook, and custom notification channels. Every alert includes a snapshot of the server at the time of the trigger, and alerts can automatically create tickets or trigger other jobs. Active alerts can also prevent new jobs from launching to maintain system stability.

Automating CI/CD Pipelines

Development teams can use xyOps to orchestrate complex CI/CD pipelines by chaining build, test, and deployment jobs with conditional logic. The visual workflow builder allows teams to define steps that run in parallel or sequence, pass artifacts between stages, and attach monitors to ensure each step completes successfully before proceeding.

Infrastructure Monitoring and Incident Response

Operations teams can set up comprehensive monitoring across their entire server fleet, tracking CPU, memory, disk, network, and custom metrics. When thresholds are breached, smart alerts can automatically create tickets in the integrated ticketing system, trigger remediation jobs, or send notifications via email, Slack, or webhooks for rapid incident response.

Scheduled Data Processing and ETL Workflows

Data engineering teams can schedule complex ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) jobs across multiple servers, with dependencies and conditional logic managed through the workflow builder. The platform supports passing data and files between steps, enforcing resource limits, and providing real-time progress updates for long-running data processing tasks.

Multi-Server Job Orchestration for Fleets

Organizations managing fleets of servers, from five to five thousand, can use xyOps to orchestrate jobs across all nodes. The system supports grouping servers manually or automatically based on hostname, and agents can be easily installed on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Failover and redundancy features ensure no jobs are interrupted during primary server failures.

What is the licensing model for xyOps?

xyOps is 100% free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause license, and it always will be. The license will never be modified, split, or amended with additional restrictive terms. No new code or contributions will ever be accepted under a non-OSI-approved license. All current and future app features will remain open source forever.

How do I create plugins for xyOps?

xyOps uses a simple JSON over STDIO Plugin API that requires no SDK and supports all programming languages. You can define custom parameters with UI form fields for your plugin. There are multiple plugin types including Event, Action, Monitor, and Trigger, allowing you to extend the platform's functionality in various ways.

Can xyOps handle a large number of servers?

Yes, xyOps is designed to scale from five servers to thousands. It supports running multiple hot backups that can take over on power loss, with no jobs interrupted during primary failover. The system scales to thousands of worker servers in your cluster, and you can group servers manually or automatically based on hostname.

What integrations are available in the Plugin Marketplace?

The Plugin Marketplace offers a growing library of ready-made plugins, including both official and community-based options. Currently available integrations include Atlassian, AWS S3, Bluesky, Cloudinary, Discord, GitHub, Google Sheets, Linear, Mastodon, Notion, OpenAI, Pushover, Replicate, Slack, Telegram, and Twilio. You can also easily add MCP servers as plugins.