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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
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highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.
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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
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$ npx skills add SigNoz/signoz#3
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$ npx skills add openobserve/openobserve#4
Your window into all of your data
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$ npx skills add elastic/kibana#5
🫖 Status page with uptime monitoring & API monitoring as code 🫖
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$ npx skills add openstatusHQ/openstatus#6
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
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$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#7
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
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$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#8
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.
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$ npx skills add coroot/coroot#9
OpenTelemetry Collector
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$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#10
Build production-ready applications in TypeScript
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$ npx skills add Effect-TS/effect#11
Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.
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$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime#12
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
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$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#13
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
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$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector#14
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
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$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin#15
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
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$ npx skills add apache/doris#16
Build your own AI SRE agents. The open source toolkit for the AI era.
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