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OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
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$ npx skills add grafana/mimir#3
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$ npx skills add kiali/kiali#6
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)
749 starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add aws-observability/aws-otel-collector#7
OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/alloy#8
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#9
Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
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$ npx skills add grafana/agent#10
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$ npx skills add grafana/beyla#11
Network inspector for your backend
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$ npx skills add subtrace/subtrace#12
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
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$ npx skills add percona/pmm#13
Prometheus rule linter/validator
1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add cloudflare/pint#14
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#15
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#16
extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
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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 Otel Cli if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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