OpenSnowcat is maintained by Snowcat Cloud, Inc and is open to individual and corporate supporters/contributors.
Yes. It is production-grade and used by a number of companies for high-volume behavioral data collection and processing. SnowcatCloud also uses it internally for all managed and hosted services.
Yes. OpenSnowcat is compatible with the Snowplow tracking SDKs and Segment SDK. No changes are required to migrate.
Yes. SnowcatCloud offers both hosted, bring your own cloud, and managed OpenSnowcat deployments, including enterprise support and infrastructure management.
You can use the DevKit (see documentation), setup OpenSnowcat in your own cloud using Docker images or sign for a cloud hosted SnowcatCloud.
Yes, please reach out and let talk about how you can contribute.
No, OpenSnowcat will remain Apache License 2.0 as the original Snowplow.
Deeply commited, our cloud-service runs on OpenSnowcat. We have to maintain it either way, might as well help maintain it open-source.
Yes, you can. OpenSnowcat is distributed with the original Apache 2.0 License.
Please visit our Github for a complete list. We plan to fork all critical components and simplify the infrastructure required to run a OpenSnowcat pipeline.
Please reach out to SnowcatCloud if you are looking for technical support.
OpenSnowcat is a community-maintained fork of the last open-source version of Snowplow, created after Snowplow Ltd. discontinued open source support in January 2024. It preserves Snowplow's open data philosophy under Apache 2.0.