Alternatives

Jaeger alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Jaeger

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

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#1

Thanos

Similarity 149Trust 98Excellent 100

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos
#2

Signoz

Similarity 143Trust 94Excellent 100

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

Loongsuite Go

Similarity 139Trust 86Excellent 87

OpenTelemetry Compile-Time Instrumentation for Golang

869 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add alibaba/loongsuite-go
#4

Opentelemetry Collector

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector

7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
#5

Mimir

Similarity 139Trust 96Excellent 100

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
#6

Datadog Agent

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

Main repository for Datadog Agent

3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent
#7

Alloy

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/alloy
#8

Agent

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.

1.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/agent
#9

Pmm

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool

1.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add percona/pmm
#10

Zipkin

Similarity 135Trust 94Excellent 100

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin
#11

Cortex

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

5.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cortexproject/cortex
#12

Deepops

Similarity 132Trust 83Strong 71

Observe any stack, any service and any data, using any UI components you prefer, never missing any X factors and resolve them before they become real problems.

4.0K starsMar 4, 2025 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add deepops-ai/deepops
#13

Coroot

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

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.

7.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add coroot/coroot
#14

Otel Cli

Similarity 131Trust 84Excellent 86

OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments

702 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add equinix-labs/otel-cli
#15

Uptrace

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace
#16

Mtail

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database

4.0K starsMar 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add google/mtail

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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 Jaeger if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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