Best Observability tools by public signals

These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, then health, shipping, confidence, GitHub stars, and name.

#ToolHealthShippingOpennessStarsScoreStatus
01Grafana
Open-source observability platform
9998Open core77.6k99Active
02Future AGI
Open-source platform for evaluating, observing, and improving LLM and AI agent applications.
9899OSI-approved OSS2.2k98Active
03Sentry
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
9898OSI-approved OSS45.7k98Active
04Langfuse
🪢 Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. 🍊YC W23
9898OSI-approved OSS36.7k98Active
05Opik
Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards.
9897OSI-approved OSS23k98Active
06OpenObserve
Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, pipelines and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.
9897OSI-approved OSS22.6k98Active
07TraceRoot
TraceRoot - open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents. YC S25
9798OSI-approved OSS1.2k98Active
08WorldMonitor
Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface
9797OSI-approved OSS89.8k97Active
09Open SRE
Build your own AI SRE agents. The open source toolkit for the AI era ✨
9797OSI-approved OSS12.6k97Active
10Prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
9796OSI-approved OSS66.9k97Active
11VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
9796OSI-approved OSS17.9k97Active
12Dozzle
Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s.
9796OSI-approved OSS14.8k97Active
13HyperDX
Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.
9796OSI-approved OSS10k97Active
14GreptimeDB
The open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces — replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES.
9796OSI-approved OSS6.8k97Active
15Centreon
Centreon is a network, system and application monitoring tool. Centreon is the only AIOps Platform Providing Holistic Visibility to Complex IT Workflows from Cloud to Edge.
9796OSI-approved OSS16897Active
16LangWatch
The platform for LLM evaluations and AI agent testing
9697OSI-approved OSS5k97Active
17SigNoz
SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for your team and their AI agents. Get logs, metrics, and traces in one tool with features like APM, distributed tracing, log management, infra monitoring, etc. Combined with SigNoz MCP and a native AI teammate (in SigNoz Cloud) it helps you build more resilient apps.
9796OSI-approved OSS32.5k96Active
18LibreNMS
Community-based network monitoring system.
9796OSI-approved OSS5k96Active
19Latitude
Latitude is the open-source agent engineering platform
9796OSI-approved OSS4.7k96Active
20odigos
Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF
9796OSI-approved OSS3.7k96Active
21Vector
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
9795OSI-approved OSS22.8k96Active
22Maple
OpenTelemetry observability platform.
9697OSI-approved OSS1.9k96Active
23HOMER
Open-source SIP, VoIP, and RTC packet capture and monitoring platform.
9696OSI-approved OSS2k96Active
24Arthur
Monitoring and governance platform for AI and ML.
9696OSI-approved OSS9396Active
25Pyroscope
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
9695OSI-approved OSS11.7k96Active
26Traceway
The only tool you need to know what is happening and how to fix it.
9695OSI-approved OSS1.7k96Active
27changedetection.io
Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring—all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!
9694OSI-approved OSS35.4k96Active
28Measure.sh
Open source mobile monitoring that gets to the root cause.
9596OSI-approved OSS1.4k96Active
29Netdata
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
9695OSI-approved OSS81.2k95Active
30Percona PMM
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
9693OSI-approved OSS1.1k95Active
31netxms
NetXMS - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management
9595OSI-approved OSS41895Active
32Beszel
Lightweight server monitoring with historical data, docker stats, and alerts.
9594OSI-approved OSS26.7k95Active
33HolmesGPT
SRE Agent - CNCF Sandbox Project
9594OSI-approved OSS3.7k95Active
34Laminar
Laminar - open-source observability platform purpose-built for AI agents. YC S24.
9594OSI-approved OSS3.5k95Active
35OneUptime
Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.
9497OSI-approved OSS7.8k95Active
36Pulse
Real-time monitoring for Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes with AI-powered insights, smart alerts, and a beautiful unified dashboard
9497OSI-approved OSS7k95Active
37Glances
Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
9593OSI-approved OSS33.9k94Active
38OpenLIT
Open source platform for AI Engineering: OpenTelemetry-native LLM Observability, GPU Monitoring, Guardrails, Evaluations, Prompt Management, Vault, Playground. 🚀💻 Integrates with 50+ LLM Providers, VectorDBs, Agent Frameworks and GPUs.
9593OSI-approved OSS2.9k94Active
39Jaeger
Distributed tracing platform for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices.
9592OSI-approved OSS23.4k94Active
40Performance Co-Pilot
Performance Co-Pilot
9494OSI-approved OSS1.1k94Active
41Thanos
Highly available Prometheus-compatible metrics system with long-term storage.
9491OSI-approved OSS14.3k93Active
42Quickwit
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
9491OSI-approved OSS11.8k93Active
43HertzBeat
An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
9491OSI-approved OSS7.4k93Active
44OpenLinkHub
Open-source web dashboard for managing Corsair AIO hardware and system metrics.
9491OSI-approved OSS1.2k93Active
45Monoscope
Logs, traces, and metrics explorer with S3-compatible storage.
9294OSI-approved OSS2k93Active
46ServiceRadar
Zero-trust open source network management and observability platform.
9196OSI-approved OSS91693Active
47Nightingale
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
9490OSI-approved OSS13.4k92Active
48Checkmk
Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
9489OSI-approved OSS2.6k92Active
49Parseable
Parseable is an observability datalake built from first principles.
9391OSI-approved OSS2.6k92Active
50Trickster
Open source HTTP reverse proxy cache and time series dashboard accelerator.
9391OSI-approved OSS2.1k92Active
51OpenITCOCKPIT
openITCOCKPIT is an Open Source system monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines like Nagios, Naemon and Prometheus.
9391OSI-approved OSS40392Active
52FUXA
Web-based process visualization and SCADA/HMI dashboard software.
9389OSI-approved OSS5.2k92Active
53Logwiz
Self-hosted log management platform built with SvelteKit and Quickwit.
9292OSI-approved OSS43992Active
54Komari
Simple server monitoring tool.
9291OSI-approved OSS6.7k92Active
55Apache SkyWalking
Application performance monitoring and observability platform for distributed systems.
9389OSI-approved OSS25k91Active
56Zabbix
Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
9388OSI-approved OSS6.5k91Active
57Solectrus
SOLECTRUS is a smart photovoltaic dashboard that displays your energy production and consumption. It also calculates costs and savings, helping you maximize the benefits of your solar system.
8993OSI-approved OSS16691Active
58Tianji
Tianji: Insight into everything, Website Analytics + Uptime Monitor + Server Status. not only another GA alternatives
8992OSI-approved OSS3.1k90Active
59Butler-SOS
Operational metrics microservice for monitoring Qlik Sense environments.
8790OSI-approved OSS2988Active
60Sessy
Email observability for AWS SES.
8984OSI-approved OSS94487Active
61sitespeed.io
sitespeed.io is an open-source tool for comprehensive web performance analysis, enabling you to test, monitor, and optimize your website’s speed using real browsers in various environments.
8885OSI-approved OSS5k87Active
62Drydock
Open source container update monitoring with notifications, audit log, OIDC auth, and metrics.
8788OSI-approved OSS27287Active
63LogTide
🛡️ Open-source, self-hosted log management. Privacy-first alternative to Datadog & ELK. Lightweight, GDPR-compliant, and deployed in minutes with Docker.
8590OSI-approved OSS45787Active
64Bottom
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
8880OSI-approved OSS14.1k85Active
65Akmatori
Open-source AI agents for incident management.
8783OSI-approved OSS4685Active
66Elementary
The dbt-native data observability solution for data & analytics engineers. Monitor your data pipelines in minutes. Available as self-hosted or cloud service with premium features.
8782OSI-approved OSS2.4k85Active
67Token Telemetry
Token telemetry dashboard for AI coding agents that tracks tokens, sessions, tool calls, and reasoning.
8778OSI-approved OSS38684Active
68CortexBrain
CortexBrain is an ambitious open-source project designed to build an intelligent, lightweight, and highly efficient monitoring platform for distributed cloud and hybrid (cloud–edge) workflows
8681OSI-approved OSS9384Active
69GoAlert
Open-source on-call scheduling, escalations, and notifications.
8475OSI-approved OSS2.9k81Active
70OpenLLMetry
Open-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry
8375OSI-approved OSS7.5k80Active
71NodeGet
Next-generation server monitoring and management tools
7879OSI-approved OSS31579Active
72Kubeshark
Kubernetes network observability platform for inspecting cluster traffic.
7969OSI-approved OSS12.1k75Active
73Nerdlog
Nerdlog: fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server
7475OSI-approved OSS1.6k74Warning
74MCPCat
Analytics platform for MCP server owners.
7561OSI-approved OSS12770Active
75Helicone
🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓
7255OSI-approved OSS6.2k65Warning
76NyaayWatch
Open-source observability layer for India's courts.
6755OSI-approved OSS362Warning
77highlight.io
highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.
6448OSI-approved OSS9.4k58Warning
78Nagvis
Visualization addon for your open source monitoring core
6546OSI-approved OSS12257Warning
79Uptrace
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
5640OSI-approved OSS4.3k50Warning
80StackPatrol
Single-binary server monitor that alerts on infrastructure failures.
4843OSI-approved OSS146Critical
81NeoHtop
💪🏻 Blazing-fast system monitoring for your desktop (built with Rust, Tauri & Svelte)
5432OSI-approved OSS9.4k45Warning
82Monigo
MoniGo is a performance monitoring library for Go apps, offering real-time insights into service-level and function-level metrics. With an intuitive UI, it enables developers to track and optimize performance. Get your Go app's dashboard up in just 10 seconds!
4839OSI-approved OSS41244Critical
83Tailpipe
select * from logs; Tailpipe is an open source SIEM for instant log insights, powered by DuckDB. Analyze millions of events in seconds, right from your terminal.
4920OSI-approved OSS58437Critical
84Evidently
Evidently is ​​an open-source ML and LLM observability framework. Evaluate, test, and monitor any AI-powered system or data pipeline. From tabular data to Gen AI. 100+ metrics.
4720OSI-approved OSS8k37Critical
85OpenClaw Telemetry
Capture and monitor tool calls, LLM requests, and agent sessions with telemetry.
4617OSI-approved OSS135Critical
86Beaconchain Dashboard
Open-source dashboard for ethereum and gnosis validator performance tracking.
4517OSI-approved OSS334Critical
87DodoPulse
Monitor macOS system metrics in real time with graphs for CPU, memory, GPU, network, and disk performance.
4317OSI-approved OSS233Critical
88Monitoror
Unified monitoring wallboard.
350OSI-approved OSS4.4k21Critical
89Zipkin
Distributed tracing system for collecting and querying timing data from services.
192OSI-approved OSS17.5k13Critical
90LLMOps Stack
Modular open-source LLMOps stack for API routing, evaluation, and observability.
170OSI-approved OSS15310Critical
91NetWatcher
Open-source distributed network monitoring platform.
170OSI-approved OSS210Critical
92Nightmend
AI-powered monitoring platform with auto-remediation and runbooks.
162OSI-approved OSS1910Critical
93MonadPulse
Independent open-source analytics platform for Monad with live blocks, validators, staking, gas, and alerts.
130OSI-approved OSS08Critical
94OpsRobot
Observability platform for Digital Employee with tracing, session insights, and cost analysis for multi-agent workflows.
123OSI-approved OSS1368Critical
95Telescope
Web-based log viewer UI. Explore logs data stored in several sources: ClickHouse, Kubernetes or Docker
113OSI-approved OSS7127Critical
96CloudSavvy
Monitor and detect anomalies in AWS accounts to aid in cost reduction and performance improvement.
90OSI-approved OSS05Critical

Evidence Watch

Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.

Not Scored

Tracked for context, but excluded from rankings because comparable open/source-visible evidence is unavailable.

Graylog

Log management platform

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Hypertrace

Open-source distributed tracing and observability platform.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

osquery

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Pellametric

Open-source AI engineering analytics platform.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Rejourney

Self-hostable observability tool for web and mobile applications.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Shinzo

Observability platform for AI agents and MCP servers.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

StackTrace

Open-source observability stack with logs, metrics, alerts, and public status pages.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Tactical RMM

Remote monitoring and management tool.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

WireQuery

Session replay and API exploration tool.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.