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. Built for developers and operations teams, xyOps provides complete control over your automation stack without sacrificing data privacy, operational freedom, or visibility. Unlike many commercial solutions, xyOps does not hide features behind paywalls, push telemetry data to external servers, or impose restrictive licensing terms. It is designed to run anywhere — on bare metal, virtual machines, containers, or in the cloud — and scales effortlessly from a handful of servers to fleets of thousands. The platform offers a visual workflow builder for creating complex automation pipelines, a flexible job scheduler that goes far beyond traditional cron capabilities, real-time server monitoring with customizable dashboards, smart alerting with complex trigger expressions, and an integrated ticketing system for incident response. All components work together seamlessly, allowing teams to schedule jobs across their fleet, track performance metrics, set alerts, and view live operational data in one centralized interface. xyOps is 100% free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause license, with professional and enterprise support plans available separately for organizations requiring additional assistance. The platform also features a plugin marketplace with both official and community-contributed plugins, enabling extensibility through a simple JSON over STDIO Plugin API that supports any programming language.

Visual Workflow Builder

The graphical workflow editor allows users to connect events, triggers, actions, and monitors into meaningful automation pipelines. You can chain multiple jobs with conditional logic, pass data and even files between workflow steps, and assign specific actions to events such as notifications or webhooks. The builder also supports attaching limiters like timeouts, memory caps, and log size caps, and provides options to run jobs in parallel or create custom queues for efficient task management.

Flexible Job Scheduler

xyOps reimagines job scheduling with capabilities far beyond traditional cron. You can target individual servers or entire groups, set multiple schedules per event, define blackout ranges for holidays or downtime, and import existing crontab configurations. The scheduler supports one-time jobs (single-shot execution) and includes plugin-based scheduler extensions for custom scheduling logic, giving you complete flexibility over when and how your jobs run.

Active Job Tracking

The platform enables running any number of jobs in parallel while optionally setting a maximum parallel limit and queuing the rest. Real-time progress updates display time remaining and enforce limits such as CPU and memory usage per job. Jobs can emit their own progress and statistics, and you can run custom actions based on job results, providing deep visibility into execution status and resource consumption across your entire fleet.

Smart Alerts and Integrated Ticketing

xyOps offers rich alerting with full customization and complex trigger expressions. Alerts can be delivered via email, webhooks, or custom notification channels, and each alert includes a snapshot of the server at the time of the event. Alerts can automatically create tickets or trigger additional jobs, and active alerts can prevent new jobs from launching. The built-in ticketing system supports incident response workflows, with tickets that can attach files and run jobs for CI/CD integration, all fully scriptable via API.

Automated Infrastructure Monitoring and Response

Operations teams can deploy xyOps to continuously monitor server health metrics such as CPU, memory, network, disk usage, and log files across their entire fleet. When predefined thresholds are breached, smart alerts automatically create tickets, trigger remediation jobs, or notify on-call engineers via email or webhook. This enables rapid incident response without manual intervention, reducing downtime and improving system reliability.

Complex CI/CD Pipeline Orchestration

Development teams can use xyOps to build and manage multi-step CI/CD pipelines that span multiple servers and environments. The visual workflow builder allows chaining build, test, and deployment jobs with conditional logic, passing artifacts between steps, and enforcing resource limits. Failed jobs can automatically create tickets for investigation, while successful deployments can trigger monitoring checks to verify application health in production.

Scheduled Data Processing and ETL Workflows

Data engineering teams can leverage xyOps to schedule and orchestrate complex ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows across distributed server groups. The flexible scheduler supports one-time jobs for ad-hoc data loads, recurring schedules for daily batch processing, and blackout ranges to avoid maintenance windows. Jobs can be chained with conditional logic to handle data dependencies, and real-time tracking provides visibility into processing progress and resource usage.

Multi-Server Job Management for Large Fleets

Organizations managing hundreds or thousands of servers can use xyOps to schedule and monitor jobs across their entire infrastructure from a single dashboard. The platform supports automatic server grouping based on hostname patterns, manual grouping for custom configurations, and agent installation on macOS, Linux, and Windows. With support for multiple hot backups and no job interruption on primary failover, xyOps ensures high availability and scalability for mission-critical automation tasks.

What makes xyOps different from traditional job schedulers like cron?

xyOps goes far beyond cron by providing a unified platform that combines job scheduling with workflow automation, server monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Unlike cron, xyOps offers a visual workflow builder for creating complex pipelines with conditional logic, real-time job tracking with resource limits, smart alerts that can trigger automated responses, and an integrated ticketing system. It also scales across fleets of thousands of servers and supports plugin-based extensions in any programming language.

Is xyOps truly free and open source?

Yes, xyOps is 100% free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause license, and it will always remain so. 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 application features will remain open source forever. Professional and enterprise support plans are available separately for organizations that need additional assistance.

How does xyOps handle scalability and high availability?

xyOps is designed to scale from five servers to five thousand. It supports running multiple hot backups that can take over immediately on primary failover without interrupting any running jobs. Workers can be installed on macOS, Linux, and Windows, and servers can be grouped manually or automatically based on hostname patterns. The platform handles thousands of worker servers in a cluster, ensuring reliable operation at any scale.

Can I extend xyOps with custom plugins?

Absolutely. xyOps uses a simple JSON over STDIO Plugin API that requires no SDK and supports all programming languages. You can create custom plugins for events, actions, monitors, and triggers, each with defined parameters that appear as UI form fields. The Plugin Marketplace provides a growing library of ready-made plugins, including integrations with Atlassian, AWS S3, Discord, GitHub, Google Sheets, Linear, Notion, OpenAI, Slack, Telegram, Twilio, and more. You can also easily add MCP servers as plugins and publish your own plugins to the store.