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Kube State Metrics alternatives for AI agents.

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Kube State Metrics

Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

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#1

Thanos

Similarity 142Trust 90Excellent 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

Prometheus Operator

Similarity 139Trust 89Excellent 100

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
#3

Opentelemetry Collector

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector

7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
#4

VictoriaMetrics

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
#5

Jaeger

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger
#6

Nightingale

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale
#7

Etcd

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

52K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add etcd-io/etcd
#8

Trivy

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy
#9

K3s

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#10

Minikube

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#11

Helm

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

The Kubernetes Package Manager

30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm
#12

Kubernetes

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes
#13

Traefik

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

64K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add traefik/traefik
#14

Podman

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#15

K9s

Similarity 124Trust 85Excellent 100

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add derailed/k9s
#16

Rancher

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher/rancher

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