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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
27K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add SigNoz/signoz#3
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#4
Your window into all of your data
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana#5
🫖 Status page with uptime monitoring & API monitoring as code 🫖
8.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add openstatusHQ/openstatus#6
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#7
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#8
Build production-ready applications in TypeScript
15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add Effect-TS/effect#9
Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.
7.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime#10
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#11
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector#12
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris#13
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#14
$ npx skills add pranshuparmar/witr#15
Sealos is an AI-native Cloud Operating System built on Kubernetes that unifies the entire application lifecycle, from development in cloud IDEs to production deployment and management. It is perfect for building and scaling modern AI applications, managed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB) and complex microservice architectures.
18K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add labring/sealos#16
Meshery, the cloud native manager
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptKubernetes
$ npx skills add meshery/mesheryHow to choose
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