Alternatives

Thanos alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Thanos

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

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Jaeger

Similarity 149Trust 95Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger

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

Pint

Similarity 143Trust 92Excellent 100

Prometheus rule linter/validator

1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add cloudflare/pint

Kube State Metrics

Similarity 141Trust 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

Cortex

Similarity 141Trust 94Excellent 100

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

5.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes

$ npx skills add cortexproject/cortex

Opentelemetry Collector

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector

7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector

Datadog Agent

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

Main repository for Datadog Agent

3.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add DataDog/datadog-agent

Alloy

Similarity 138Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

3.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add grafana/alloy

Perses

Similarity 137Trust 94Excellent 100

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

2.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add perses/perses

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Agent

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.

1.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add grafana/agent

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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

#12

Sensu Go

Similarity 136Trust 92Excellent 100

Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.

1.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability

$ npx skills add sensu/sensu-go

#13

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

#14

Kibana

Similarity 135Trust 92Excellent 100

Your window into all of your data

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability

$ npx skills add elastic/kibana

#15

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

#16

Nestjs Otel

Similarity 133Trust 86Excellent 86

OpenTelemetry (Tracing + Metrics) module for Nest framework (node.js) 🔭

786 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevopsTypeScriptObservability

$ npx skills add pragmaticivan/nestjs-otel

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