Alternatives

Loongcollector alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Loongcollector

Fast and Lightweight Observability Data Collector

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#1

Falco

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Cloud Native Runtime Security

9.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add falcosecurity/falco
#2

WasmEdge

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 100

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsC++Kubernetes
$ npx skills add WasmEdge/WasmEdge
#3

Hubble

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Hubble - Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF

4.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsMakefileKubernetes
$ npx skills add cilium/hubble
#4

Retina

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes

3.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add microsoft/retina
#5

Loxilb

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

eBPF based cloud-native load-balancer for Kubernetes|Edge|Telco|IoT|XaaS.

1.9K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add loxilb-io/loxilb
#6

Qtap

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

Qtap: An eBPF agent that captures pre-encrypted network traffic, providing rich context about egress connections and their originating processes.

1.4K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevopsCKubernetes
$ npx skills add qpoint-io/qtap
#7

Skywalking

Similarity 122Trust 96Excellent 100

APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking
#8

Signoz

Similarity 121Trust 94Excellent 100

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

27K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add SigNoz/signoz
#9

Harbor

Similarity 120Trust 97Excellent 100

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor
#10

Cilium

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cilium/cilium
#11

Coroot

Similarity 119Trust 94Excellent 100

Coroot is an open-source observability and APM tool with AI-powered Root Cause Analysis. It combines metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting with predefined dashboards and inspections.

7.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add coroot/coroot
#12

VictoriaMetrics

Similarity 119Trust 96Excellent 100

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
#13

Quarkus

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaKubernetes
$ npx skills add quarkusio/quarkus
#14

Linkerd2

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 100

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2
#15

Apisix

Similarity 119Trust 94Excellent 100

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsLuaKubernetes
$ npx skills add apache/apisix
#16

Vcluster

Similarity 118Trust 97Excellent 100

vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add loft-sh/vcluster

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