No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
watchdog has 108.2M monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 6.0.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2011.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2024.
It is used by 2,542 tracked packages, including strands-agents, streamlit and google-adk.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 594 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
82
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
108,188,227
•
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
108,188,227
Stars
7,375
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
•
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
3,309,067
Month daily avg
3,606,274
Momentum
-8.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
•
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
612 days ago
Total releases
51
Releases/year
3.3
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
155
Monthly downloads
108,188,227
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
65
Issue Burden
28.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
594d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.8M
Windows
89.5K
macOS
25.2K
Python Versions
3.12
31.8%
553.7K
3.11
23.8%
414.5K
3.13
22.6%
393.0K
3.14
11.4%
197.9K
3.10
10.4%
181.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.4M
US
2.
DE
59.1K
DE
3.
SG
49.9K
SG
4.
IN
40.4K
IN
5.
NL
37.8K
NL
6.
IE
28.0K
IE
7.
JP
24.7K
JP
8.
GB
22.6K
GB
9.
CA
19.0K
CA
10.
BE
18.5K
BE
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- pyyaml[watchmedo]
Used By
2542
- strands-agents
- streamlit
- google-adk
- mkdocs
- dagster
- functions-framework
- strands-agents-tools
- aws-sam-cli
- dagster-dg-core
- apache-superset
- properdocs
- pytest-watcher
- runpod
- watchdog-gevent
- evidently
- purecloudplatformclientv2
- jurigged
- linkml
- code-review-graph
- opencode-agent-hub
- pydoc-markdown
- swanlab
- gdsfactory
- manim
- aim
- ai-edge-model-explorer
- bernstein
- mcpo
- cachier
- dbx
- lseg-data
- spyder
- tinybird
- flet-cli
- nbdev
- ovos-utils
- memsearch
- batrachian-toad
- cocoindex
- neuro-san
- quartodoc
- apm-cli
- robyn
- recce
- httpwatcher
- claude-mpm
- vyper-config
- abstra
- total-perspective-vortex
- compas
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
January 20, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
6.0.0
Total Releases
51
Contributors
155
Open PRs
18
Archived
No
Author
Mickaël Schoentgen
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp310
pp36
pp37
pp38
pp39
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh