No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
datadog-checks-base has 781K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 37.41.0, first published in 2018.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is used by 1 tracked package, including datadog-smartd.
GitHub topics include datadog-agent, datadog and dd.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
72
Adoption
88
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
781,245
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
781,245
Stars
1,124
Stars per 1k downloads
1.44
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
•
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
30,888
Month daily avg
26,042
Momentum
+18.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
6 days ago
Total releases
246
Releases/year
30.2
•
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
5,874
Monthly downloads
781,245
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
93
Issue Burden
75.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
19.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
380.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.6K
Windows
270
Python Versions
3.13
71.9%
3.5K
3.12
23.3%
1.1K
3.11
3.9%
192
3.8
0.7%
32
3.10
0.2%
9
Top Countries
1.
US
3.8K
US
2.
BE
1.0K
BE
3.
SG
52
SG
4.
GB
22
GB
5.
IE
16
IE
6.
SE
12
SE
7.
CA
8
CA
8.
CN
1
CN
9.
KR
1
KR
10.
VN
1
VN
Dependencies
0
31 optional dependencies
- aws-requests-auth[http]
- binary[deps]
- botocore[http]
- cachetools[deps]
- cryptography[deps]
- ddtrace[deps]
- jellyfish[deps]
- kubernetes[kube]
- lazy-loader[deps]
- mmh3[db]
- oauthlib[http]
- orjson[json]
- prometheus-client[deps]
- protobuf[deps]
- pydantic[deps]
- pyjwt[http]
- pyopenssl[http]
- pysocks[http]
- python-dateutil[deps]
- pywin32[deps]
- pyyaml[deps]
- requests[deps]
- requests-kerberos[http]
- requests-ntlm[http]
- requests-oauthlib[http]
- requests-oauthlib[kube]
- requests-toolbelt[deps]
- requests-unixsocket2[deps]
- simplejson[deps]
- urllib3[deps]
- wrapt[deps]
Used By
1
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
May 14, 2018
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
37.41.0
Total Releases
246
Contributors
5,874
Open PRs
311
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh