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Introducing EventCatalog Cloud and Plugin Licensing

· 2 min read
David Boyne
David Boyne
Founder of EventCatalog

EventCatalog has been another great month for EventCatalog with almost 2k stars on GitHub, and 1000 Discord members. Our project continues to grow about 10/15% every month in usage.

We are happy to share our first initial release of EventCatalog Cloud.

EventCatalog Cloud

Our vision here is to offer you a new way to experience EventCatalog, which will include:

  • Hosting - Manage hosting for your EventCatalog instance
  • Licensing - Manage your plugin licenses and updates
  • Ask your Catalog questions - Using AI to answer questions about your Catalog, quickly get answers to your questions
  • Collaborate - Design with EventCatalog Studio, and collaborate with your team

Integration licenses on EventCatalog Cloud​

To help keep the project sustainable and open source we have now introduced license keys for our plugins. All our plugins were dual licensed, but did not require any license key to run or use them. This small change allows us to offer a better experience for our users and a sustainable project.

All plugins will now have a 14 day trial period (you can extend contacting us), after which you will need to purchase a license key to continue using the plugin.

To obtain a license key for a plugin or a trial you can login to EventCatalog Cloud and navigate to the integrations page.

What's next?​

We will be adding more features to EventCatalog Cloud in the coming months, including:

  • Plugin improvements - We will be adding more plugins (e.g GitHub, GitLab) and improving the existing ones
  • Improvements to EventCatalog - New features and customization options for EventCatalog.
  • EventCatalog Studio - A new way to design and collaborate on your EventCatalog (Beta launch)
  • AI - Ask your Catalog questions, and get answers quickly

Summary​

January was slightly a slow month in terms of maintenance and features as I was focused on EventCatalog Cloud, and talks for NDC and FOSDEM. These events were great and I met a lot of new people, and got to catch up with old friends.

I am looking forward to February, we have a lot of great features and quality of life improvements planned.

If you want to join us on this journey feel free to join our Discord community, and if you want to sponsor the project you can do so here.

Speak soon!

David Boyne