Alternatives

Kstack alternatives for AI agents.

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

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#1

Skywalking

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking
#2

Doris

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.

15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris
#3

Coroot

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 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
#4

Hertzbeat

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 100

An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.

7.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/hertzbeat
#5

VictoriaMetrics

Similarity 120Trust 88Excellent 100

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

17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
#6

Signoz

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 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. ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ–ฅ. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

27K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add SigNoz/signoz
#7

Openobserve

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

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
#8

Jaeger

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger
#9

Vector

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

A high-performance observability data pipeline.

22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector
#10

Thanos

Similarity 118Trust 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
#11

Kibana

Similarity 117Trust 85Excellent 100

Your window into all of your data

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana
#12

Zipkin

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin
#13

Nightingale

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

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

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale
#14

Effect

Similarity 117Trust 85Excellent 100

Build production-ready applications in TypeScript

15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add Effect-TS/effect
#15

Openstatus

Similarity 116Trust 85Excellent 100

๐Ÿซ– Status page with uptime monitoring & API monitoring as code ๐Ÿซ–

8.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add openstatusHQ/openstatus
#16

Oneuptime

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 100

Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.

7.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime

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