Alternatives

Perses alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

Current skill

Perses

The CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus, Tempo, Loki and Pyroscope - more data sources to come!

100
Quality
94
Trust
2.2K
Stars
#1

Mimir

Similarity 147Trust 96Excellent 100

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
#2

Pint

Similarity 143Trust 92Excellent 100

Prometheus rule linter/validator

1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add cloudflare/pint
#3

Thanos

Similarity 141Trust 98Excellent 100

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos
#4

Opentelemetry Collector

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector

7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
#5

Kiali

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh

3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add kiali/kiali
#6

Alloy

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/alloy
#7

Agent

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.

1.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/agent
#8

Beyla

Similarity 136Trust 91Excellent 100

eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of web applications and network metrics

2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add grafana/beyla
#9

Subtrace

Similarity 136Trust 88Excellent 96

Network inspector for your backend

2.8K starsJan 28, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add subtrace/subtrace
#10

Pmm

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool

1.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add percona/pmm
#11

Grafterm

Similarity 135Trust 78Strong 71

Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)

1.1K starsJun 10, 2022 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add slok/grafterm
#12

OpenGemini

Similarity 135Trust 91Excellent 96

CNCF sandbox project, an open source distributed time-series database with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

1.2K starsMay 8, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add openGemini/openGemini
#13

Prometheus Operator

Similarity 134Trust 97Excellent 100

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
#14

Jaeger

Similarity 133Trust 95Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger
#15

Kube State Metrics

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

6.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/kube-state-metrics
#16

Cortex

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

5.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cortexproject/cortex

How 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 Perses if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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