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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
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CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#3
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#4
OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#5
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#6
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace#7
Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
1.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add sensu/sensu-go#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
Prometheus rule linter/validator
1.0K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add cloudflare/pint#10
The Java agent for Apache SkyWalking
917 starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking-java#11
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
6.1K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#12
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#13
OpenTelemetry Compile-Time Instrumentation for Golang
869 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add alibaba/loongsuite-go#14
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#15
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add kiali/kiali#16
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/kubetailHow 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 Datadog Agent if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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