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Netdata

NetdataOpen

Real-time infrastructure monitoring with per-second metrics and alerts

Stars80.9K
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0

Netdata is a self-hosted monitoring agent that collects per-second metrics from systems, containers, and applications, with built-in dashboards, alerts, and anomaly detection.

Alternative toDatadog
Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch

Distributed search and analytics engine with vector search

Stars78.2K
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0-only

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine for near-real-time full-text, vector, hybrid, and geospatial search.

Alternative toMeilisearchAlgolia
Grafana

GrafanaOpen

Dashboards over whatever data you already store

Stars71.2K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Grafana is the visualisation layer that sits above other systems rather than a monitoring stack of its own. It queries Prometheus, Loki, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and dozens of other sources, and puts them on the same dashboard.

Alternative toDatadog
Prometheus

PrometheusOpen

Open-source metrics monitoring with PromQL queries and alerting

Stars66.5K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system that scrapes metrics into a dimensional time-series database and evaluates PromQL rules for alerting.

Alternative toNagiosGrafana
ClickHouse

ClickHouseOpen

Columnar OLAP database for real-time analytics at scale

Stars50.2K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

ClickHouse is a column-oriented OLAP database built for analytical SQL queries over very large datasets, serving real-time dashboards and applications.

SigNoz

SigNozOpen

Open-source observability with logs, metrics, and traces in one tool

Stars32.3K
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

SigNoz is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that combines logs, metrics, and traces with APM, dashboards, and alerts in one tool.

Alternative toDatadog
InfluxDB

InfluxDBOpen

Open time-series database for metrics, events, and IoT telemetry

Stars31.8K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

InfluxDB is an open time-series database for metrics, events, and IoT telemetry, queried with SQL and InfluxQL and run self-managed or as a managed cloud.

Prefect

PrefectOpen

Open-source Python workflow orchestration for resilient data pipelines

Stars24K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Prefect is an open-source workflow orchestration framework that turns Python functions into resilient data pipelines with scheduling, retries, and event triggers.

Alternative toKestra
Vector

VectorOpen

High-performance observability pipeline for logs and metrics

Stars22.7K
Commitjust now
LicenseMPL-2.0

Vector is a Rust observability data pipeline that collects, transforms, and routes logs and metrics from dozens of sources to any vendor sink.

Alternative toLogstash
OpenObserve

OpenObserveOpen

Open-source observability for logs, metrics, traces and RUM in one binary

Stars22.3K
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, RUM and AI model telemetry in one Rust binary backed by object storage.

VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetricsOpen

Fast, cost-effective open-source time-series database and monitoring

Stars17.9K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

VictoriaMetrics is an open-source time-series database and monitoring solution that ingests Prometheus, InfluxDB, OpenTelemetry and Graphite data and queries it with PromQL-compatible MetricsQL.

Alternative toPrometheus
Apache APISIX

Apache APISIXOpen

Open-source API gateway for routing, security, and AI traffic

Stars17.2K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Apache APISIX is a self-hosted, open-source API gateway that routes traffic to upstream services with authentication, rate limiting, and observability.

Alternative toOktaAuth0
Logstash

LogstashOpen

Open-source data pipeline that ingests, transforms, and ships logs and events

Stars15K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Logstash is a free open-source data collection engine from Elastic that ingests, transforms, and ships logs and events through real-time pipelines.

Alternative toElasticsearch
OpenSearch

OpenSearchOpen

Apache 2.0 search and analytics suite with AI-ready retrieval

Stars13.8K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

OpenSearch is an Apache 2.0 search and analytics suite for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and analyzing data at scale, with vector search for AI applications.

Alternative toElasticsearchAlgolia
Portkey AI Gateway

Portkey AI GatewayOpen

Open-source AI gateway routing 200+ providers with fallbacks

Stars13.2K
Commit3mo ago
LicenseMIT

Portkey AI Gateway is an open-source gateway that routes app traffic across 200+ LLM providers with fallbacks, load balancing, caching, and guardrails.

Keep

KeepAIOpen

Open-source AIOps for alert correlation, deduplication, and automated remediation

Stars12.4K
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Keep is an open-source AIOps platform that aggregates alerts from 90+ providers, deduplicates them with AI, and automates remediation via YAML or visual workflows.

Alternative toGrafana
Quickwit

QuickwitOpen

Cloud-native search engine for logs on object storage

Stars11.7K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Quickwit is an open-source, cloud-native search engine built for log management and analytics directly on object storage, written in Rust on top of Tantivy.

HyperDX

HyperDXOpen

Open-source observability unifying logs, traces, metrics, and session replay

Stars9,940
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

HyperDX is an open-source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, traces, metrics, and errors for faster production debugging.

Highlight

HighlightOpen

Open-source fullstack monitoring with replay, errors, logs, and traces

Stars9,384
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Highlight is an open-source fullstack monitoring platform with session replay, error monitoring, logging, and tracing, plus a Docker self-hosting path.

Alternative toSentry
Bifrost

BifrostOpen

Self-hosted LLM gateway with one OpenAI-compatible API

Stars8,531
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Bifrost is a self-hosted gateway that puts every large language model call behind one OpenAI-compatible API. An application points its existing OpenAI client at the gateway, and Bifrost routes the request to whichever provider is configured, so switching models or spreading load across providers is a configuration change rather than a rewrite.

Coroot

CorootAIOpen

Zero-instrumentation observability with eBPF and AI root-cause analysis

Stars7,954
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Coroot watches a whole system without asking developers to change their code.

Alternative toDatadogNew Relic
OneUptime

OneUptimeOpen

Open-source uptime monitoring, incident response, and status pages in one platform

Stars7,725
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

OneUptime is an open-source monitoring and incident platform with uptime checks, on-call alerting, status pages, and correlated logs, metrics, and traces, self-hosted or as a managed cloud.

Alternative toDatadogUptime Kuma
GreptimeDB

GreptimeDBOpen

Open-source observability database for metrics, logs, and traces

Stars6,729
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

GreptimeDB is an open-source observability database that stores metrics, logs, and traces in one columnar engine backed by object storage.

Zabbix

Zabbix

Self-hosted monitoring for networks, servers, and cloud

Stars6,472
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0-only

Zabbix is a self-hosted monitoring platform that tracks networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services from one distributed setup, with agents and agentless checks feeding dashboards, alerting, and escalation under a free AGPL license.

Alternative toDatadog
Uptrace

UptraceOpen

Open-source APM with traces, metrics, and logs in one UI

Stars4,301
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Uptrace is a self-hosted APM that collects OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs into one UI with dashboards, alerting, and PromQL-style queries.

Alternative toDatadog
KrakenD

KrakenDOpen

Stateless open-source API gateway for aggregation and traffic control

Stars2,690
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

KrakenD is a stateless, open-source API gateway written in Go that merges multiple backend calls into single endpoints with authentication, rate limiting, and observability.

Checkmk

Checkmk

Agent-based infrastructure and application monitoring for hybrid IT

Stars2,385
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-2.0

Checkmk is a self-hosted monitoring platform for servers, networks, containers, and cloud services, with automatic discovery and alerting built in.

Alternative toDatadogGrafana
Timeplus

TimeplusOpen

Open-source streaming SQL engine for real-time analytics

Stars2,269
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Timeplus Proton is an open-source streaming SQL engine in a single C++ binary that turns Kafka and log streams into real-time analytics with millisecond latency.

Alternative toApache Kafka
Icinga

IcingaOpen

Open-source infrastructure monitoring with distributed checks and alerting

Stars2,238
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0

Icinga is open-source infrastructure monitoring for servers, networks, and services, with distributed checks, alerts, and self-hosting under a GPL licence.

Alternative toCheckmkGrafana
GlitchTip

GlitchTipOpen

Error tracking that speaks the Sentry protocol

Stars2,140
Commit5d ago
LicenseMIT

GlitchTip accepts events from the official Sentry SDKs, which means adopting it is a DSN change rather than an instrumentation project. Stack traces, breadcrumbs, releases, and issue grouping all work as expected.

Alternative toSentry
Bugsink

Bugsink

Self-hosted error tracking that works with Sentry SDKs

Stars2,108
Commitjust now
LicensePolyForm-Shield-1.0.0

Bugsink is a self-hosted error tracker that collects exceptions from running apps and shows them in one place with stack traces and context.

Alternative toSentry
Gigapipe

GigapipeOpen

Self-hosted observability backend for logs, metrics, and traces

Stars1,711
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Gigapipe is a self-hosted observability backend that stores logs, metrics, traces, and profiles in ClickHouse and serves Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, and Pyroscope APIs.

Alternative toDatadogGrafana
WunderGraph

WunderGraphOpen

Open-source GraphQL federation platform and API gateway

Stars1,275
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

WunderGraph Cosmo is an open-source platform for GraphQL federation that composes REST and GraphQL services into one unified gateway API.

Alternative toKrakenD
Wachd

WachdOpen

Self-hosted alert intelligence with AI root-cause analysis for on-call teams

Stars42
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Wachd is a self-hosted alert intelligence platform that takes webhooks from Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus, gathers context, strips PII, correlates events into a causal timeline, and sends a plain-English diagnosis to the on-call engineer.

Alternative toGrafana
Datadog

Datadog

Infrastructure monitoring, logs, and tracing in one platform

CompanyDatadog
Since2010
PricingPaid

Datadog's value is correlation. A latency spike on a dashboard, the traces behind it, and the logs from the affected hosts are one or two clicks apart, which is the difference between a ten minute incident and an hour.

New Relic

New Relic

Application performance monitoring with usage based pricing

CompanyNew Relic
Since2008
PricingFree

New Relic was the application performance monitoring product for a generation of web applications, and its repricing to per-user plus per-gigabyte was an explicit attempt to answer the complaint about host based billing.

Alternative toDatadog
Sentry

Sentry

Error tracking and performance monitoring for applications

CompanyFunctional Software
Since2012
PricingFreemium

Sentry is the tool most teams install first and remove last. An unhandled exception arrives with a stack trace, the release that introduced it, the users affected, and the breadcrumbs leading up to it.