#1
Aya is an eBPF library for the Rust programming language, built with a focus on developer experience and operability.
4.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add aya-rs/ayaAlternatives
Pup alternatives for AI agents.
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Pup
Give your AI agent a Pup — a CLI companion with 200+ commands across 33+ Datadog products.
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#2
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector#3
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.
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$ npx skills add openobserve/openobserve#4
Easily add metrics to your code that actually help you spot and debug issues in production. Built on Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
835 starsSep 18, 2025 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add autometrics-dev/autometrics-rs#5
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin#6
Build production-ready applications in TypeScript
15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add Effect-TS/effect#7
Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.
7.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime#8
OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#9
Build your own AI SRE agents. The open source toolkit for the AI era.
7.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsPythonObservability
$ npx skills add Tracer-Cloud/opensre#10
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#11
OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments
702 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add equinix-labs/otel-cli#12
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#13
Rust Kubernetes client and controller runtime
3.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustKubernetes
$ npx skills add kube-rs/kube#14
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#15
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add kiali/kiali#16
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/persesHow 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 Pup if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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