Top Observability repositories on GitHub
Tracing, metrics, logs, and debugging tools for production systems.
Ranked by stars across 532 repositories tagged observability. Refreshed daily.
- 1netdata/netdata★ 78,722 · ⑂ 6,426
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
- monitoring
- docker
- kubernetes
- cncf
- prometheus
- netdata
- 2SigNoz/signoz★ 26,807 · ⑂ 2,146
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool
- observability
- application-monitoring
- opentelemetry
- distributed-tracing
- apm
- go
- 3langfuse/langfuse★ 26,701 · ⑂ 2,709
🪢 Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. 🍊YC W23
- analytics
- llm
- llmops
- large-language-models
- openai
- self-hosted
- 4mlflow/mlflow★ 25,784 · ⑂ 5,689
The open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models. MLflow enables teams of all sizes to debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production-quality AI applications while controlling costs and managing access to models and data.
- machine-learning
- ai
- ml
- mlflow
- apache-spark
- model-management
- 5apache/skywalking★ 24,791 · ⑂ 6,641
APM, Application Performance Monitoring System
- skywalking
- observability
- apm
- service-mesh
- dapper
- distributed-tracing
- 6cilium/cilium★ 24,291 · ⑂ 3,751
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
- containers
- bpf
- security
- kubernetes
- kubernetes-networking
- cni
- 7jaegertracing/jaeger★ 22,767 · ⑂ 2,881
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
- distributed-tracing
- cncf
- tracing
- observability
- jaeger
- opentelemetry
- 8PrefectHQ/prefect★ 22,318 · ⑂ 2,294
Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
- python
- workflow
- data-engineering
- data-science
- workflow-engine
- prefect
- 9vectordotdev/vector★ 21,784 · ⑂ 2,118
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
- logs
- metrics
- observability
- forwarder
- events
- stream-processing
- 10elastic/kibana★ 21,075 · ⑂ 8,571
Your window into all of your data
- kibana
- elasticsearch
- visualizations
- metrics
- observability
- dashboards
- 11mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide★ 19,621 · ⑂ 978
Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs, WireGuard, Automation, Home Assistant, and Networking.
- self-hosted
- selfhosted
- home-assistant
- wireguard
- decentralized
- self-hosting
- 12openobserve/openobserve★ 18,780 · ⑂ 809
OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring. A cost-effective alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.
- logs
- metrics
- traces
- analytics
- elasticsearch
- jaeger
- 13openzipkin/zipkin★ 17,434 · ⑂ 3,103
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
- zipkin
- distributed-tracing
- tracing
- openzipkin
- observability
- 14VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics★ 16,953 · ⑂ 1,636
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
- tsdb
- prometheus
- promql
- influxdb
- graphite
- opentsdb
- 15kubesphere/kubesphere★ 16,924 · ⑂ 2,735
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️
- devops
- cncf
- cloud-native
- servicemesh
- kubesphere
- kubernetes
- 16Effect-TS/effect★ 14,071 · ⑂ 562
Build production-ready applications in TypeScript
- effect
- javascript
- cli
- opentelemetry
- platform
- schema
- 17thanos-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
- 18ccfos/nightingale★ 13,004 · ⑂ 1,704
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
- monitoring
- time-series
- nightingale
- tsdb
- open-falcon
- alerting
- 19kubeshark/kubeshark★ 11,889 · ⑂ 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
- 20grafana/pyroscope★ 11,410 · ⑂ 742
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
- continuous-profiling
- profiling
- performance
- golang
- ruby
- python
- 21upgundecha/howtheysre★ 9,724 · ⑂ 886
A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world practice Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- site-reliability-engineering
- sre
- chaos-engineering
- dev-ops
- devops
- monitoring
- 22hyperdxio/hyperdx★ 9,486 · ⑂ 394
Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.
- analytics
- application-monitoring
- log-management
- logs
- metrics
- monitoring
- 23highlight/highlight★ 9,254 · ⑂ 544
highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.
- apm
- golang
- metrics
- monitoring
- observability
- open-source
- 24VoltAgent/voltagent★ 8,661 · ⑂ 869
AI Agent Engineering Platform built on an Open Source TypeScript AI Agent Framework
- agents
- ai
- chatbots
- llm
- mcp
- nodejs
- 25openstatusHQ/openstatus★ 8,644 · ⑂ 650
🫖 Status page with uptime monitoring & API monitoring as code 🫖
- observability
- open-source
- status-page
- turso
- tinybird
- nextjs
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