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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
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Skywalking Java alternatives for AI agents.
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The Java agent for Apache SkyWalking
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An agent component for the Java system
585 starsApr 14, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add megaease/easeagent#3
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin#4
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace#5
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#6
An application observability facade for the most popular observability tools. Think SLF4J, but for observability.
4.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add micrometer-metrics/micrometer#7
High performance Java APM. Powered by ASM. Try it. Test it. If you feel its better, use it.
3.6K starsMay 5, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add LinShunKang/MyPerf4J#8
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
The .NET/.NET Core instrument agent for Apache SkyWalking
1.7K starsOct 27, 2025 pushdevopsC#Observability
$ npx skills add SkyAPM/SkyAPM-dotnet#10
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#11
highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.
9.3K starsApr 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add highlight/highlight#12
Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, pipelines and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.
19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add openobserve/openobserve#13
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#14
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#15
Your window into all of your data
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana#16
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingaleHow to choose
When should you switch?
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Skywalking Java if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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