uWSGI

uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io · checked 8 Oct 2026

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Facts

Website: uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io
Price: Free tier
Free trial: Not stated
Architecture: Its pluggable architecture uses a common API and configuration style, and plugins can be written in C, C++, or Objective-C.
Build requirements: The docs say building uWSGI requires a Python interpreter, a C compiler and linker, and libraries or headers for the chosen language.
Concurrency: The loop engines support preforking, threaded, asynchronous or evented, and green thread or coroutine modes.
Core features: The core provides configuration, process management, sockets, monitoring, logging, shared memory, IPC, cluster membership, and a subscription server.
Distribution: The project publishes a stable source release and says uWSGI is also available as packages for several operating systems and distributions; it cautions that distro packages may not be current.
Download: The download page lists stable release 2.0.31 dated 2025-10-11 and says uWSGI is also available through several operating-system distributions, whose packages may not be up to date.
Included components: The documented components include a core, request plugins, gateways and the Emperor for managing and monitoring multiple instances.
Language support: Documented request plugins include WSGI, PSGI, Rack, Lua WSAPI, CGI, PHP, and Go.
Maintenance status: The project is in maintenance mode, with bug fixes and updates for new language APIs; the docs say not to expect quick answers on GitHub issues or pull requests.
Monitoring: The core includes monitoring and logging, and the docs recommend monitoring application health through uwsgitop and the Stats Server or similar tools.
Multi-app management: The Emperor monitors application configurations and can start, reload, or stop managed instances when their configuration files are added, changed, or removed.
Nginx and Apache support: The docs describe the Nginx handler as stable and commercially supported by Unbit, and say Apache's mod_uwsgi is stable and commercially supported.

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