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Dagu

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Powerful Cron alternative with a Web UI. It allows you to define dependencies between commands as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in a declarative YAML format

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9.0
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Product Details

PricingOpen Source
API✅ REST
Learning CurveModerate
Integrations7 available

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PROS & CONS

STRENGTHS

  • Excellent visual representation and management of complex job dependencies.
  • Excellent visual interface for monitoring complex, dependent workflows.
  • Simple YAML configuration lowers the barrier to creating sophisticated automations.

WEAKNESSES

  • −The Web UI is functional but relatively basic compared to some commercial workflow orchestrators.
  • −Primarily CLI and self-managed, lacking a hosted SaaS option for teams wanting zero infrastructure.

KEY FEATURES

Declarative YAML

Configure workflows in an easy-to-read and maintainable YAML format.

Built-in Web UI

Monitor, manage, and visualize job execution through a graphical interface.

Cron Replacement

Schedule and automate tasks more powerfully than traditional cron.

Web UI

Monitor and manage scheduled jobs through a graphical interface.

WHO IS Dagu BEST FOR?

Software Developers & Platform Teams

They benefit from a lightweight, self-hosted scheduler with a web UI for automating development, build, and deployment tasks without heavy platform overhead.

DevOps Engineers & SREs

They need a reliable, visual tool to manage complex, interdependent cron jobs and workflows with clear dependency management and monitoring.

INTEGRATIONS

HTTP/webhooksSlackCloud Storage (via CLI tools)Databases (via CLI drivers)Monitoring/Alerting toolsEmail/SMTPGit

TECHNICAL DETAILS

LEARNING CURVE
MODERATE — FEW HOURS
API

✓ REST

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DOSSIER

LAST VERIFIED MAR 23, 2026
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ALTERNATIVES

Healthchecks9.5/10
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INTEGRATIONS

HTTP/webhooksSlackCloud Storage (via CLI tools)Databases (via CLI drivers)Monitoring/Alerting toolsEmail/SMTPGit

PRICING MODEL

open source

BEST FOR

Software Developers & Platform Teams DevOps Engineers & SREs

FEATURES

Has API

FINAL ASSESSMENT

APPROVED — WORTH YOUR MONEY

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