Kong/insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

40k stars · 2.4k forks · TypeScript

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 22 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 51
Human commits, 90 days: 190
Human commits, 365 days: 789
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (20 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (20 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 22
Last release: Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 31 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 70% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 6 days.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 5
Authors for 80% of commits: 9
Contributors: 334

Top committers

ryan-willis: 13% of commits
jackkav: 12% of commits
cwangsmv: 12% of commits
ZxBing0066: 12% of commits
pavkout: 9% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Aug 10, 2017 to Aug 11, 2017: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 23, 2017 to Oct 26, 2017: about 104 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 7, 2017 to Dec 11, 2017: about 336 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Aug 23, 2018 to Aug 30, 2018: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 29, 2019 to Aug 29, 2019: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 27, 2020 to Jan 30, 2020: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 33 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 27, 2020 to Apr 30, 2020: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 25, 2021 to Oct 26, 2021: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 28, 2022 to Feb 28, 2022: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 5, 2022 to Aug 12, 2022: about 255 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 12, 2023 to Jul 14, 2023: about 303 more stars than usual, peak 218 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 1, 2024 to Jan 4, 2024: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 3, 2024 to Aug 4, 2024: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 20, 2025 to Oct 23, 2025: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 18, 2026 to Jun 26, 2026: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 348 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.
3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 8.8 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: Kong/insomnia

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 14 hours ago · method 2026.10.2