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Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
1.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
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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#3
Observe FastAPI app with three pillars of observability: Traces (Tempo), Metrics (Prometheus), Logs (Loki) on Grafana through OpenTelemetry.
1.1K starsApr 12, 2026 pushdevopsPythonObservability
$ npx skills add blueswen/fastapi-observability#4
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#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
OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#7
extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
4.0K starsMar 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add google/mtail#8
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#9
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#10
Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
1.1K starsJun 10, 2022 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add slok/grafterm#11
Prometheus rule linter/validator
1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add cloudflare/pint#12
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#13
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
6.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#14
OpenTelemetry Compile-Time Instrumentation for Golang
869 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add alibaba/loongsuite-go#15
Fast and easy to use database for logs, which can efficiently handle terabytes of logs
2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs#16
OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments
702 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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