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Free and open-source software that automatically starts workloads on demand and stops them after inactivity to save resources

Go Latest v1.13.0 · 6d ago Security brief →

Features

  • On‑demand start/stop for Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, Proxmox LXC workloads
  • Customizable waiting UI while workloads warm up
  • Webhook notifications on instance start or stop
  • Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry tracing for observability

Recent releases

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v1.13.0 Breaking risk
⚠ Upgrade required
  • Add sablier.idle.replicas=1 to existing workloads that previously relied on CPU/memory throttling via idle.cpu or idle.memory settings.
Breaking changes
  • sablier.idle.cpu and sablier.idle.memory no longer enable throttling without setting sablier.idle.replicas=1
Notable features
  • --auto-stop-externally-started flag added
  • OpenTelemetry distributed tracing support added
  • SSE instance events endpoint (api) added
Full changelog

1.13.0 (2026-05-29)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

  • sablier.idle.cpu / sablier.idle.memory no longer enable throttling on their own. Add sablier.idle.replicas=1 to existing workloads that relied on CPU/memory throttling.

Features

  • add --auto-stop-externally-started flag (#906) (d2fd51d)
  • add --provider.reject-unlabeled-requests and --provider.verify-enabled-on-expiration (#901) (f1a4e61)
  • add OpenTelemetry distributed tracing support (#929) (68faefd)
  • add replica count to scale mode, gate resource throttling on idle.replicas >= 1 (#909) (5722c6f)
  • add running-hours keep-warm windows and timezone support (#907) (ed9c611)
  • add theme options schema (#917) (20828ca)
  • add webhooks (#920) (a608a8c)
  • api: add SSE instance events endpoint (#916) (2eccf89)
  • metrics: add sablier_instance_active_seconds_total metric (#932) (e92f438)
  • provider: add ready-after instance configuration (#904) (ff60d31)
  • provider: support CloudNativePG Cluster hibernation in Kubernetes (#944) (199f12e), closes #943
  • scale mode to throttle CPU/memory instead of stopping containers (#908) (d39804f)
  • support multiple groups per instance (#913) (5b0f896)
  • theme: bundle external CSS, JS, and images into custom themes (#928) (e9ba051)

Bug Fixes

Documentation

  • add benchmarking/performance (#931) (33abb7e)
  • add docker socket proxy example (#902) (af8127b)
  • add table of content divider (44134a3)
  • examples: example verify enabled on expiration (#911) (3e64b9e)
  • release please update version typo (b92169a)
  • update configuration docs and README (#930) (57a65d9)

Code Refactoring

Chores

  • add OpenTelemetry patterns to dependabot config (68866ea)
No immediate action
v1.12.0 New feature

Prometheus metrics + raw instance data

v1.11.2 Bug fix

Fixed a command panic that could crash the application, updated dependencies to address known issues, and added error handling for instance start failures to improve reliability.

v1.11.1 Bug fix

Fixed environment variable prefix to correctly use SABLIER_ and corrected access logging level from debug to appropriate level.

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