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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalkingAlternatives
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The .NET/.NET Core instrument agent for Apache SkyWalking
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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#3
The Java agent for Apache SkyWalking
917 starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/skywalking-java#4
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#5
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
4.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add uptrace/uptrace#6
ApplicationInsights-dotnet
605 starsMay 29, 2026 pushdevopsC#Observability
$ npx skills add microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet#7
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#8
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#9
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger#10
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
17K starsApr 8, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add openzipkin/zipkin#11
highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.
9.3K starsApr 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability
$ npx skills add highlight/highlight#12
Main repository for Datadog Agent
3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent#13
High performance Java APM. Powered by ASM. Try it. Test it. If you feel its better, use it.
3.6K starsMay 5, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add LinShunKang/MyPerf4J#14
An agent component for the Java system
585 starsApr 14, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add megaease/easeagent#15
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsRustObservability
$ npx skills add vectordotdev/vector#16
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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