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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
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Microsoft Application Insights SDK for JavaScript
684 starsMay 20, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add microsoft/ApplicationInsights-JS#3
The .NET/.NET Core instrument agent for Apache SkyWalking
1.7K starsOct 27, 2025 pushdevopsC#Observability
$ npx skills add SkyAPM/SkyAPM-dotnet#4
Main repository for Datadog Agent
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$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#5
Browse the sample apps demonstrating Aspire integration across C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, containers, databases, cloud, AI, and observability scenarios.
1.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsC#Observability
$ npx skills add microsoft/aspire-samples#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
27K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add SigNoz/signoz#7
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#8
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin#9
The Java agent for Apache SkyWalking
917 starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking-java#10
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#11
OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#12
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace#13
Digging through logs is not observability. It's hope — wide events, structured errors, TypeScript-first, every runtime.
1.5K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add HugoRCD/evlog#14
OpenTelemetry Auto Instrumentation using eBPF
1.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsCObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-instrumentation#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
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
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