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A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
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VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#3
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#4
An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
7.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/hertzbeat#5
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#6
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#7
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#8
OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#9
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor#10
Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
26K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dapr/dapr#11
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#12
APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking#13
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#14
Your window into all of your data
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana#15
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin#16
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/dorisHow to choose
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