Alternatives

Kibana alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Kibana

Your window into all of your data

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#1

Openobserve

Similarity 141Trust 97Excellent 100

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
#2

Thanos

Similarity 135Trust 98Excellent 100

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos
#3

Nestjs Otel

Similarity 131Trust 86Excellent 86

OpenTelemetry (Tracing + Metrics) module for Nest framework (node.js) 🔭

786 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add pragmaticivan/nestjs-otel
#4

Oneuptime

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.

7.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime
#5

Highlight

Similarity 131Trust 91Excellent 100

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
#6

Elastdocker

Similarity 129Trust 89Excellent 95

🐳 Elastic Stack (ELK) v9+ on Docker with Compose. Pre-configured out of the box to enable Logging, Metrics, APM, Alerting, ML, and SIEM features. Up with a Single Command.

2.1K starsJan 3, 2026 pushdevopsDockerfileObservability
$ npx skills add sherifabdlnaby/elastdocker
#7

Skywalking

Similarity 128Trust 96Excellent 100

APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking
#8

Jaeger

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger
#9

Nightingale

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale
#10

Signoz

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

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
#11

Opentelemetry Collector

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector

7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
#12

Mimir

Similarity 125Trust 96Excellent 100

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
#13

Micrometer

Similarity 125Trust 95Excellent 100

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
#14

Uptrace

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace
#15

Effect

Similarity 124Trust 91Excellent 100

Build production-ready applications in TypeScript

15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add Effect-TS/effect
#16

Datadog Agent

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

Main repository for Datadog Agent

3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent

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