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Top Go Observability repositories on GitHub

Tracing, metrics, logs, and debugging tools for production systems. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Go.

Ranked by stars across 203 Go repositories tagged observability. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    cilium/cilium24,291 · ⑂ 3,751

    eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

    • containers
    • bpf
    • security
    • kubernetes
    • kubernetes-networking
    • cni
  2. 2
    jaegertracing/jaeger22,767 · ⑂ 2,881

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    • distributed-tracing
    • cncf
    • tracing
    • observability
    • jaeger
    • opentelemetry
  3. 3
    VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics16,954 · ⑂ 1,636

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

    • tsdb
    • prometheus
    • promql
    • influxdb
    • graphite
    • opentsdb
  4. 4
    kubesphere/kubesphere16,925 · ⑂ 2,735

    The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️

    • devops
    • cncf
    • cloud-native
    • servicemesh
    • kubesphere
    • kubernetes
  5. 5
    thanos-io/thanos14,058 · ⑂ 2,296

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

    • prometheus
    • google-cloud-storage
    • high-availability
    • prometheus-ha-pairs
    • thanos
    • s3
  6. 6
    ccfos/nightingale13,004 · ⑂ 1,704

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

    • monitoring
    • time-series
    • nightingale
    • tsdb
    • open-falcon
    • alerting
  7. 7
    kubeshark/kubeshark11,890 · ⑂ 532

    eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes. Indexes L4/L7 traffic with full K8s context, decrypts TLS without keys. Queryable by AI agents via MCP and humans via dashboard.

    • kubernetes
    • golang
    • rest
    • grpc
    • devops
    • sniffer
  8. 8
    grafana/pyroscope11,410 · ⑂ 742

    Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

    • continuous-profiling
    • profiling
    • performance
    • golang
    • ruby
    • python
  9. 9
    coroot/coroot7,626 · ⑂ 367

    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.

    • dashboard
    • database-monitoring
    • metrics
    • monitoring
    • observability
    • prometheus
  10. 10
    projectcalico/calico7,187 · ⑂ 1,557

    Cloud native networking and network security

    • cni
    • cni-plugin
    • ebpf
    • k8s
    • kubernetes
    • kubernetes-networking
  11. 11

    OpenTelemetry Collector

    • opentelemetry
    • open-telemetry
    • telemetry
    • metrics
    • monitoring
    • observability
  12. 12
    kubernetes/kube-state-metrics6,122 · ⑂ 2,174

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

    • kubernetes
    • prometheus
    • monitoring
    • observability
    • prometheus-exporter
    • metrics
  13. 13
    coze-dev/coze-loop5,447 · ⑂ 754

    Next-generation AI Agent Optimization Platform: Cozeloop addresses challenges in AI agent development by providing full-lifecycle management capabilities from development, debugging, and evaluation to monitoring.

    • agent
    • ai
    • agent-evaluation
    • agent-observability
    • agentops
    • eino
  14. 14
    grafana/mimir5,077 · ⑂ 764

    Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

    • prometheus
    • metrics
    • tsdb
    • opentelemetry
    • otlp
    • observability
  15. 15
    flipt-io/flipt4,788 · ⑂ 287

    Enterprise-ready, Git native feature management solution

    • go
    • feature-flags
    • golang
    • continuous-delivery
    • feature-toggles
    • grpc
  16. 16
    uptrace/uptrace4,188 · ⑂ 208

    Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

    • monitoring
    • opentelemetry
    • distributed-tracing
    • clickhouse
    • golang
    • performance-monitoring
  17. 17
    google/mtail4,008 · ⑂ 389

    extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database

    • monitoring
    • logs
    • observability
    • prometheus
    • collector
    • proxy
  18. 18
    odigos-io/odigos3,656 · ⑂ 247

    Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF

    • ebpf
    • kubernetes
    • observability
    • opentelemetry
    • logs
    • metrics
  19. 19
    kiali/kiali3,609 · ⑂ 550

    Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh

    • observability
    • service-mesh
    • istio
    • openshift
    • management
  20. 20
    DataDog/datadog-agent3,603 · ⑂ 1,421

    Main repository for Datadog Agent

    • monitoring
    • go
    • datadog
    • apm-agent
    • apm-instrumentation
    • distributed-tracing
  21. 21
    grafana/alloy3,144 · ⑂ 586

    OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

    • collector
    • grafana
    • loki
    • monitoring
    • observability
    • opentelemetry
  22. 22
    microsoft/retina3,131 · ⑂ 287

    eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes

    • ebpf
    • kubernetes
    • networking
    • observability
  23. 23
    subtrace/subtrace2,806 · ⑂ 64

    Network inspector for your backend

    • backend
    • observability
    • monitoring
    • devtools
  24. 24
    slok/sloth2,474 · ⑂ 220

    🦥 Easy and simple Prometheus SLO (service level objectives) generator

    • slo
    • service-level-objective
    • service-level
    • sli
    • sla
    • prometheus
  25. 25
    perses/perses2,140 · ⑂ 192

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

    • dashboard
    • monitoring
    • prometheus
    • cncf-project
    • observability

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