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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 217 Go repositories tagged observability. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    netdata/netdata79,331 · ⑂ 6,489

    The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

    • monitoring
    • docker
    • kubernetes
    • cncf
    • prometheus
    • netdata
  2. 2
    cilium/cilium24,558 · ⑂ 3,841

    eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

    • containers
    • bpf
    • security
    • kubernetes
    • kubernetes-networking
    • cni
  3. 3
    jaegertracing/jaeger22,903 · ⑂ 2,962

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    • distributed-tracing
    • cncf
    • tracing
    • observability
    • jaeger
    • opentelemetry
  4. 4
    VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics17,188 · ⑂ 1,668

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

    • tsdb
    • prometheus
    • promql
    • influxdb
    • graphite
    • opentsdb
  5. 5
    kubesphere/kubesphere16,974 · ⑂ 2,744

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

    • devops
    • cncf
    • cloud-native
    • servicemesh
    • kubesphere
    • kubernetes
  6. 6
    thanos-io/thanos14,116 · ⑂ 2,317

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

    • prometheus
    • google-cloud-storage
    • high-availability
    • prometheus-ha-pairs
    • thanos
    • s3
  7. 7
    ccfos/nightingale13,099 · ⑂ 1,725

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

    • monitoring
    • time-series
    • nightingale
    • tsdb
    • open-falcon
    • alerting
  8. 8
    kubeshark/kubeshark11,961 · ⑂ 539

    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
  9. 9
    grafana/pyroscope11,501 · ⑂ 770

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

    • continuous-profiling
    • profiling
    • performance
    • golang
    • ruby
    • python
  10. 10
    coroot/coroot7,764 · ⑂ 384

    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
  11. 11
    projectcalico/calico7,258 · ⑂ 1,582

    Cloud native networking and network security

    • cni
    • cni-plugin
    • ebpf
    • k8s
    • kubernetes
    • kubernetes-networking
  12. 12

    OpenTelemetry Collector

    • opentelemetry
    • open-telemetry
    • telemetry
    • metrics
    • monitoring
    • observability
  13. 13
    kubernetes/kube-state-metrics6,139 · ⑂ 2,187

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

    • kubernetes
    • prometheus
    • monitoring
    • observability
    • prometheus-exporter
    • metrics
  14. 14
    coze-dev/coze-loop5,533 · ⑂ 766

    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
  15. 15
    grafana/mimir5,129 · ⑂ 785

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

    • prometheus
    • metrics
    • tsdb
    • opentelemetry
    • otlp
    • observability
  16. 16
    flipt-io/flipt4,826 · ⑂ 295

    Enterprise-ready, Git native feature management solution

    • go
    • feature-flags
    • golang
    • continuous-delivery
    • feature-toggles
    • grpc
  17. 17
    uptrace/uptrace4,226 · ⑂ 210

    Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

    • monitoring
    • opentelemetry
    • distributed-tracing
    • clickhouse
    • golang
    • performance-monitoring
  18. 18
    google/mtail4,016 · ⑂ 390

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

    • monitoring
    • logs
    • observability
    • prometheus
    • collector
    • proxy
  19. 19
    odigos-io/odigos3,660 · ⑂ 252

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

    • ebpf
    • kubernetes
    • observability
    • opentelemetry
    • logs
    • metrics
  20. 20
    DataDog/datadog-agent3,652 · ⑂ 1,448

    Main repository for Datadog Agent

    • monitoring
    • go
    • datadog
    • apm-agent
    • apm-instrumentation
    • distributed-tracing
  21. 21
    kiali/kiali3,619 · ⑂ 557

    Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh

    • observability
    • service-mesh
    • istio
    • openshift
    • management
  22. 22
    grafana/alloy3,267 · ⑂ 628

    OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

    • collector
    • grafana
    • loki
    • monitoring
    • observability
    • opentelemetry
  23. 23
    microsoft/retina3,146 · ⑂ 288

    eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes

    • ebpf
    • kubernetes
    • networking
    • observability
  24. 24
    subtrace/subtrace2,807 · ⑂ 64

    Network inspector for your backend

    • backend
    • observability
    • monitoring
    • devtools
  25. 25
    slok/sloth2,503 · ⑂ 222

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

    • slo
    • service-level-objective
    • service-level
    • sli
    • sla
    • prometheus

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