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OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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Substation alternatives for AI agents.
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Substation
Substation is a toolkit for routing, normalizing, and enriching security event and audit logs.
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Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
5.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/mimir#3
⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern
4.7K starsMay 3, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add stern/stern#4
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#5
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add kiali/kiali#6
The CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus, Tempo, Loki and Pyroscope - more data sources to come!
2.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add perses/perses#7
A log viewer for Kubernetes troubleshooting
2.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/khi#8
:tophat: simple, fun and transparent SSH (and telnet) bastion server
1.9K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add moul/sshportal#9
eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of web applications and network metrics
2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/beyla#10
Network inspector for your backend
2.8K starsJan 28, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add subtrace/subtrace#11
Real-time logging dashboard for Kubernetes. View logs in a terminal or a browser. Run anywhere - desktop, cluster, docker.
1.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubetail-org/kubetail#12
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
1.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add percona/pmm#13
Prometheus rule linter/validator
1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add cloudflare/pint#14
Cloudlist is a tool for listing Assets from multiple Cloud Providers.
1.0K starsMay 25, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/cloudlist#15
CNCF sandbox project, an open source distributed time-series database with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
1.2K starsMay 8, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add openGemini/openGemini#16
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaegerHow 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 Substation if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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