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.
- 1cilium/cilium★ 24,291 · ⑂ 3,751
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
- containers
- bpf
- security
- kubernetes
- kubernetes-networking
- cni
- 2jaegertracing/jaeger★ 22,767 · ⑂ 2,881
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
- distributed-tracing
- cncf
- tracing
- observability
- jaeger
- opentelemetry
- 3VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics★ 16,954 · ⑂ 1,636
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
- tsdb
- prometheus
- promql
- influxdb
- graphite
- opentsdb
- 4kubesphere/kubesphere★ 16,925 · ⑂ 2,735
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️
- devops
- cncf
- cloud-native
- servicemesh
- kubesphere
- kubernetes
- 5thanos-io/thanos★ 14,058 · ⑂ 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
- 6ccfos/nightingale★ 13,004 · ⑂ 1,704
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
- monitoring
- time-series
- nightingale
- tsdb
- open-falcon
- alerting
- 7kubeshark/kubeshark★ 11,890 · ⑂ 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
- 8grafana/pyroscope★ 11,410 · ⑂ 742
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
- continuous-profiling
- profiling
- performance
- golang
- ruby
- python
- 9coroot/coroot★ 7,626 · ⑂ 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
- 10projectcalico/calico★ 7,187 · ⑂ 1,557
Cloud native networking and network security
- cni
- cni-plugin
- ebpf
- k8s
- kubernetes
- kubernetes-networking
- 11open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector★ 6,935 · ⑂ 2,053
OpenTelemetry Collector
- opentelemetry
- open-telemetry
- telemetry
- metrics
- monitoring
- observability
- 12kubernetes/kube-state-metrics★ 6,122 · ⑂ 2,174
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
- kubernetes
- prometheus
- monitoring
- observability
- prometheus-exporter
- metrics
- 13coze-dev/coze-loop★ 5,447 · ⑂ 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
- 14grafana/mimir★ 5,077 · ⑂ 764
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
- prometheus
- metrics
- tsdb
- opentelemetry
- otlp
- observability
- 15flipt-io/flipt★ 4,788 · ⑂ 287
Enterprise-ready, Git native feature management solution
- go
- feature-flags
- golang
- continuous-delivery
- feature-toggles
- grpc
- 16uptrace/uptrace★ 4,188 · ⑂ 208
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
- monitoring
- opentelemetry
- distributed-tracing
- clickhouse
- golang
- performance-monitoring
- 17google/mtail★ 4,008 · ⑂ 389
extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
- monitoring
- logs
- observability
- prometheus
- collector
- proxy
- 18odigos-io/odigos★ 3,656 · ⑂ 247
Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF
- ebpf
- kubernetes
- observability
- opentelemetry
- logs
- metrics
- 19kiali/kiali★ 3,609 · ⑂ 550
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
- observability
- service-mesh
- istio
- openshift
- management
- 20DataDog/datadog-agent★ 3,603 · ⑂ 1,421
Main repository for Datadog Agent
- monitoring
- go
- datadog
- apm-agent
- apm-instrumentation
- distributed-tracing
- 21grafana/alloy★ 3,144 · ⑂ 586
OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
- collector
- grafana
- loki
- monitoring
- observability
- opentelemetry
- 22microsoft/retina★ 3,131 · ⑂ 287
eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes
- ebpf
- kubernetes
- networking
- observability
- 23subtrace/subtrace★ 2,806 · ⑂ 64
Network inspector for your backend
- backend
- observability
- monitoring
- devtools
- 24slok/sloth★ 2,474 · ⑂ 220
🦥 Easy and simple Prometheus SLO (service level objectives) generator
- slo
- service-level-objective
- service-level
- sli
- sla
- prometheus
- 25perses/perses★ 2,140 · ⑂ 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
Find Go engineers shipping Observability
The list above ranks the most-starred public Go repositories tagged with the Observability topic, drawn from the public GitHub graph. Across 203 matching repositories, the contributors are a tight cluster of engineers with both Go chops and real Observability experience.
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