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VictoriaMetrics alternatives for AI agents.

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VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

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#1

Jaeger

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger
#2

Hertzbeat

Similarity 126Trust 86Excellent 100

An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.

7.4K starsAug 27, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/hertzbeat
#3

Etcd

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

52K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add etcd-io/etcd
#4

Gf

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.

13K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add gogf/gf
#5

Prometheus Operator

Similarity 122Trust 88Excellent 99

Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

9.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
#6

Cloudnative Pg

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 100

CloudNativePG is a comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments, covering the entire operational lifecycle from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance

9.0K starsJul 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg
#7

Spicedb

Similarity 122Trust 87Excellent 100

Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data

7.1K starsSep 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add authzed/spicedb
#8

Openobserve

Similarity 120Trust 88Excellent 100

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

Doris

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.

16K starsAug 27, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris
#10

Nightingale

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.

13K starsNov 3, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale
#11

Thanos

Similarity 117Trust 89Excellent 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
#12

Seaweedfs

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling.

33K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add seaweedfs/seaweedfs
#13

K3s

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Lightweight Kubernetes

33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s
#14

Minikube

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Run Kubernetes locally

32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube
#15

Harbor

Similarity 116Trust 88Excellent 100

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor
#16

Dapr

Similarity 116Trust 89Excellent 100

Dapr is a portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.

26K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add dapr/dapr

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