pingcap / pingcap/ossinsight

Stargazers history for volcengine/OpenViking is undercounted

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TypeScript
Stars
2.5k
Forks
447
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
8

Description

Hi OSSInsight team,
We noticed a discrepancy in the star count for the repository volcengine/OpenViking between OSSInsight and GitHub.

What we see

  • On OSSInsight (repo page + Public API stargazers/history ), the cumulative stargazers count is around 4,8xx .
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  • On GitHub, the repository stargazers_count is around 22,9xx (currently ~23k).
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Repro steps

  1. Call OSSInsight Public API:
  2. Observe that the last data point is ~4,799 stargazers (e.g., 2026-04-23: 4799 ).
  3. Compare with GitHub REST API:
    • stargazers_count returns ~22,968 (varies slightly day to day).

Cause we use OSSInsight trends data for reporting. This undercount makes the “Stars (cumulative)” metric misleading and affects downstream dashboards/analysis.

Additional context

  • The mismatch is persistent across days (not just a single-day lag).

Could you please check whether this repo’s star events are missing from your dataset or whether the ETL/backfill for volcengine/OpenViking is incomplete, and advise on any workaround/timeline?

Thank you.

Wish you all the best

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Research direction

Reproduce the discrepancy between the OSSInsight Public API stargazers/history result for volcengine/OpenViking and GitHub’s stargazers_count. Trace the stargazer event ingestion and ETL or backfill path for this repository; done means the cumulative history reflects the repository’s GitHub star count and downstream metrics are no longer undercounted.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github, typescript
Domain
analytics, data-engineering
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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