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OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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Mimir alternatives for AI agents.
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Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
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Prometheus rule linter/validator
1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add cloudflare/pint#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 distribution with programmable pipelines
3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/alloy#6
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#7
Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
1.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/agent#8
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#9
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
6.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#10
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#11
OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments
702 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add equinix-labs/otel-cli#12
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#13
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add kiali/kiali#14
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#15
Easily add metrics to your code that actually help you spot and debug issues in production. Built on Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
835 starsSep 18, 2025 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add autometrics-dev/autometrics-rs#16
eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of web applications and network metrics
2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/beylaHow 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 Mimir if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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