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CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
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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#3
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9.0K starsJul 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg#6
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#7
Apache Doris is an easy-to-use, high performance and unified analytics database.
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsJavaObservability
$ npx skills add apache/doris#8
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add thanos-io/thanos#9
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add ccfos/nightingale#10
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy#11
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#12
Lightweight Kubernetes
33K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add k3s-io/k3s#13
Run Kubernetes locally
32K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add kubernetes/minikube#14
An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add goharbor/harbor#15
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#16
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
30K starsJul 24, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
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