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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsSep 10, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalkingAlternatives
Skywalking Rover alternatives for AI agents.
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Monitor and profiler powered by eBPF to monitor network traffic, and diagnose CPU and network performance.
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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#3
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#4
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#5
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#6
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#7
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
30K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add hashicorp/consul#8
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector#9
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
16K starsAug 27, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris#10
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#11
Your window into all of your data
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana#12
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add linkerd/linkerd2#13
Build production-ready applications in TypeScript
15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add Effect-TS/effect#14
Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator#15
An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
7.4K starsAug 27, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/hertzbeat#16
flannel is a network fabric for containers, designed for Kubernetes
9.5K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add flannel-io/flannelHow to choose
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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 Rover if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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