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OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/alloyAlternatives
Mtail alternatives for AI agents.
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extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
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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 Compile-Time Instrumentation for Golang
869 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add alibaba/loongsuite-go#5
OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#6
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#7
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#8
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add kiali/kiali#9
OpenTelemetry Auto Instrumentation using eBPF
1.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsCObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-instrumentation#10
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#11
Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
1.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/agent#12
eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of web applications and network metrics
2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/beyla#13
Network inspector for your backend
2.8K starsJan 28, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add subtrace/subtrace#14
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
1.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add percona/pmm#15
Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
1.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add sensu/sensu-go#16
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/signozHow 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 Mtail if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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