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An application observability facade for the most popular observability tools. Think SLF4J, but for observability.
4.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add micrometer-metrics/micrometerAlternatives
Zipkin alternatives for AI agents.
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CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#3
APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking#4
The Java agent for Apache SkyWalking
917 starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking-java#5
An agent component for the Java system
585 starsApr 14, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add megaease/easeagent#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
OpenTelemetry Compile-Time Instrumentation for Golang
869 starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add alibaba/loongsuite-go#8
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#9
Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.
7.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add OneUptime/oneuptime#10
OpenTelemetry Collector
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#11
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
5.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/mimir#12
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris#13
Aya is an eBPF library for the Rust programming language, built with a focus on developer experience and operability.
4.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add aya-rs/aya#14
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace#15
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#16
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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