OSS Insight

OSS Insight is a free analytics platform for open source activity on GitHub, built by PingCAP on TiDB Cloud. It ingests the public GitHub event stream, covering stars, commits, pull requests, issues, reviews and contributors, and turns it into dashboards for individual repositories, developers and organisations. Its GitHub Data Explorer lets users ask a question in natural language, generates the SQL with Chat2Query, the GPT based SQL generator in TiDB Cloud, runs it against the event data and presents the results visually. It is useful for maintainers tracking community health, developer relations teams comparing projects, investors and analysts watching technology trends, and engineers researching which libraries are gaining traction. Beyond per repository analytics it offers curated Collections that rank repositories within a technical field by month and over time, a Trending view of what is active on GitHub now, and the ability to compare two repositories on the same metrics. The project's own code is public in the pingcap ossinsight repository, and new collections can be proposed by pull request. The platform is free to use, and no pricing page or paid plan is published. Two limitations apply today. The Data Explorer, the natural language to SQL feature, is marked as under maintenance and temporarily unavailable, while repository analytics, Collections and Trending remain online. OSS Insight has also paused its star based rankings: after GitHub changed how its public events feed is paginated, star, pull request and issue events since mid 2025 were badly under captured, so the team withdrew rankings that depend on those counts. History before May 2025, repository totals synced from GitHub and commit activity are unaffected.