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 258 Go repositories tagged observability. Refreshed daily.
- 1netdata/netdata★ 80,875 · ⑂ 6,662
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
- monitoring
- docker
- kubernetes
- cncf
- prometheus
- netdata
- 2cilium/cilium★ 25,629 · ⑂ 4,142
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
- containers
- bpf
- security
- kubernetes
- kubernetes-networking
- cni
- 3jaegertracing/jaeger★ 23,274 · ⑂ 3,151
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
- distributed-tracing
- cncf
- tracing
- observability
- jaeger
- opentelemetry
- 4pranshuparmar/witr★ 22,645 · ⑂ 792
Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.
- cli
- devops
- freebsd
- golang
- linux
- macos
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- 5VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics★ 17,841 · ⑂ 1,767
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
- tsdb
- prometheus
- promql
- influxdb
- graphite
- opentsdb
- 6kubesphere/kubesphere★ 17,057 · ⑂ 2,754
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️
- devops
- cncf
- cloud-native
- servicemesh
- kubesphere
- kubernetes
- 7thanos-io/thanos★ 14,229 · ⑂ 2,386
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
- prometheus
- google-cloud-storage
- high-availability
- prometheus-ha-pairs
- thanos
- s3
- 8ccfos/nightingale★ 13,327 · ⑂ 1,785
Open-source, self-hosted alerting for metrics, logs, and databases. Includes a built-in AI agent and MCP server.
- monitoring
- time-series
- nightingale
- tsdb
- alerting
- metrics
- 9kubeshark/kubeshark★ 12,097 · ⑂ 553
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
- 10grafana/pyroscope★ 11,697 · ⑂ 820
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
- continuous-profiling
- profiling
- performance
- golang
- ruby
- python
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- 11coroot/coroot★ 7,967 · ⑂ 407
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
- 12open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector★ 7,649 · ⑂ 2,289
OpenTelemetry Collector
- opentelemetry
- open-telemetry
- telemetry
- metrics
- monitoring
- observability
- 13projectcalico/calico★ 7,388 · ⑂ 1,617
Cloud native networking and network security
- cni
- cni-plugin
- ebpf
- k8s
- kubernetes
- kubernetes-networking
- 14kubernetes/kube-state-metrics★ 6,222 · ⑂ 2,199
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
- kubernetes
- prometheus
- monitoring
- observability
- prometheus-exporter
- metrics
- 15coze-dev/coze-loop★ 5,764 · ⑂ 801
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
- 16grafana/mimir★ 5,252 · ⑂ 854
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
- prometheus
- metrics
- tsdb
- opentelemetry
- otlp
- observability
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- 17flipt-io/flipt★ 4,916 · ⑂ 313
Enterprise-ready, Git native feature management solution
- go
- feature-flags
- golang
- continuous-delivery
- feature-toggles
- grpc
- 18uptrace/uptrace★ 4,300 · ⑂ 221
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
- monitoring
- opentelemetry
- distributed-tracing
- clickhouse
- golang
- performance-monitoring
- 19google/mtail★ 4,032 · ⑂ 394
extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
- monitoring
- logs
- observability
- prometheus
- collector
- proxy
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