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Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanosAlternatives
Policy Reporter alternatives for AI agents.
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Policy Reporter
Monitoring and Observability Tool for the PolicyReport CRD with an optional UI.
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VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#3
Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator#4
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#5
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#6
Lightweight Kubernetes
33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s#7
Run Kubernetes locally
32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube#8
The Kubernetes Package Manager
30K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add helm/helm#9
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
123K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kubernetes#10
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman#11
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#12
APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking#13
Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl
20K starsAug 2, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add ahmetb/kubectx#14
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add derailed/k9s#15
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#16
Complete container management platform
26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
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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 Policy Reporter if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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