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A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vectorAlternatives
Orb alternatives for AI agents.
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Orb
Orb is a dynamic network observability platform with agent fleet orchestration and data pipelines with OpenTelemetry
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CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#3
The open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces — replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES.
6.4K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add GreptimeTeam/greptimedb#4
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#5
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/micrometer#6
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#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
7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#9
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#10
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#11
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace#12
extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
4.0K starsMar 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add google/mtail#13
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#14
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add kiali/kiali#15
OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/alloy#16
The CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus, Tempo, Loki and Pyroscope - more data sources to come!
2.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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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 Orb if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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