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Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
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$ npx skills add apache/skywalking#3
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
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$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#4
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#5
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
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$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector#6
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
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$ npx skills add quarkusio/quarkus#7
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#8
OpenTelemetry Collector
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$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#9
Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.
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$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime#10
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris#11
An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
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$ npx skills add apache/hertzbeat#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
Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.
15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add theonedev/onedev#14
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#15
Your window into all of your data
21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add elastic/kibana#16
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingaleHow to choose
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 Tracing if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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