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CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaegerAlternatives
Tcpdog alternatives for AI agents.
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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/thanos#3
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.
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$ npx skills add coroot/coroot#4
OpenTelemetry Collector
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$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#5
APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
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$ npx skills add apache/skywalking#6
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
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$ npx skills add SigNoz/signoz#7
An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
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$ npx skills add apache/hertzbeat#8
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
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$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#9
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman#10
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cilium/cilium#11
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector#12
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#13
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
17K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics#14
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris#15
Application Kernel for Containers
19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add google/gvisor#16
Your window into all of your data
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
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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 Tcpdog if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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