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
9999Open core76.7k99Active
02Sentry
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
9999OSI-approved OSS44.8k99Active
03Future AGI
Open-source platform for evaluating, observing, and improving LLM and AI agent applications.
9899OSI-approved OSS2k98Active
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 OSS34.5k98Active
05Opik
Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards.
9898OSI-approved OSS22k98Active
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.
9898OSI-approved OSS21.8k98Active
07Open SRE
Build your own AI SRE agents. The open source toolkit for the AI era ✨
9898OSI-approved OSS11k98Active
08TraceRoot
TraceRoot - open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents. YC S25
9798OSI-approved OSS76898Active
09LibreNMS
Community-based network monitoring system.
9897OSI-approved OSS4.9k97Active
10LangWatch
The platform for LLM evaluations and AI agent testing
9798OSI-approved OSS4.8k97Active
11Netdata
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
9797OSI-approved OSS80.5k97Active
12Prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
9797OSI-approved OSS66.1k97Active
13SigNoz
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.
9797OSI-approved OSS32.1k97Active
14Vector
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
9797OSI-approved OSS22.5k97Active
15VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
9797OSI-approved OSS17.7k97Active
16HyperDX
Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry.
9797OSI-approved OSS9.9k97Active
17GreptimeDB
The open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces — replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES.
9797OSI-approved OSS6.7k97Active
18Latitude
Latitude is the open-source agent engineering platform
9797OSI-approved OSS4.6k97Active
19Performance Co-Pilot
Performance Co-Pilot
9797OSI-approved OSS1.1k97Active
20Arthur
Monitoring and governance platform for AI and ML.
9797OSI-approved OSS8997Active
21Dozzle
Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s.
9796OSI-approved OSS14.4k97Active
22odigos
Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF
9796OSI-approved OSS3.7k97Active
23Centreon
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 OSS16497Active
24Percona PMM
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
9796OSI-approved OSS1.1k96Active
25HOMER
Open-source SIP, VoIP, and RTC packet capture and monitoring platform.
9696OSI-approved OSS2k96Active
26Traceway
The only tool you need to know what is happening and how to fix it.
9696OSI-approved OSS1.5k96Active
27Measure.sh
Open source mobile monitoring that gets to the root cause.
9696OSI-approved OSS1.4k96Active
28Glances
Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
9695OSI-approved OSS33.6k96Active
29Jaeger
Distributed tracing platform for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices.
9695OSI-approved OSS23.2k96Active
30Pyroscope
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
9695OSI-approved OSS11.7k96Active
31OneUptime
Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform.
9598OSI-approved OSS7.6k96Active
32Maple
OpenTelemetry observability platform.
9597OSI-approved OSS1.8k96Active
33Nightingale
Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.
9695OSI-approved OSS13.3k95Active
34HertzBeat
An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
9694OSI-approved OSS7.4k95Active
35OpenLIT
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.
9694OSI-approved OSS2.8k95Active
36Bottom
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
9594OSI-approved OSS14k95Active
37Laminar
Laminar - open-source observability platform purpose-built for AI agents. YC S24.
9594OSI-approved OSS3.3k95Active
38Quickwit
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
9593OSI-approved OSS11.6k95Active
39Beszel
Lightweight server monitoring with historical data, docker stats, and alerts.
9593OSI-approved OSS25.3k94Active
40HolmesGPT
SRE Agent - CNCF Sandbox Project
9593OSI-approved OSS3.3k94Active
41Parseable
Parseable is an observability datalake built from first principles.
9493OSI-approved OSS2.5k94Active
42OpenLinkHub
Open-source web dashboard for managing Corsair AIO hardware and system metrics.
9492OSI-approved OSS1.2k94Active
43Thanos
Highly available Prometheus-compatible metrics system with long-term storage.
9592OSI-approved OSS14.2k93Active
44Trickster
Open source HTTP reverse proxy cache and time series dashboard accelerator.
9493OSI-approved OSS2.1k93Active
45Komari
Simple server monitoring tool.
9392OSI-approved OSS6.2k93Active
46OpenITCOCKPIT
openITCOCKPIT is an Open Source system monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines like Nagios, Naemon and Prometheus.
9392OSI-approved OSS38293Active
47LogTide
🛡️ Open-source, self-hosted log management. Privacy-first alternative to Datadog & ELK. Lightweight, GDPR-compliant, and deployed in minutes with Docker.
9294OSI-approved OSS44893Active
48Pulse
Real-time monitoring for Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes with AI-powered insights, smart alerts, and a beautiful unified dashboard
9197OSI-approved OSS6.7k93Active
49Checkmk
Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
9489OSI-approved OSS2.4k92Active
50Drydock
Open source container update monitoring with notifications, audit log, OIDC auth, and metrics.
9292OSI-approved OSS25292Active
51Apache SkyWalking
Application performance monitoring and observability platform for distributed systems.
9390OSI-approved OSS24.9k91Active
52changedetection.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!
9389OSI-approved OSS34k91Active
53Zabbix
Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
9388OSI-approved OSS6.4k91Active
54CortexBrain
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
9192OSI-approved OSS8891Active
55Logwiz
Self-hosted log management platform built with SvelteKit and Quickwit.
8993OSI-approved OSS29091Active
56Token Telemetry
Token telemetry dashboard for AI coding agents that tracks tokens, sessions, tool calls, and reasoning.
9286OSI-approved OSS35390Active
57Monoscope
Logs, traces, and metrics explorer with S3-compatible storage.
8794OSI-approved OSS1.8k90Active
58FUXA
Web-based process visualization and SCADA/HMI dashboard software.
9186OSI-approved OSS5k89Active
59Solectrus
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.
8890OSI-approved OSS16489Active
60WorldMonitor
Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface
8889OSI-approved OSS86.3k88Active
61Tianji
Tianji: Insight into everything, Website Analytics + Uptime Monitor + Server Status. not only another GA alternatives
8592OSI-approved OSS3.1k88Active
62Elementary
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.
8779OSI-approved OSS2.4k84Active
63Sessy
Email observability for AWS SES.
8679OSI-approved OSS92483Active
64sitespeed.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.
8177OSI-approved OSS5k79Active
65GoAlert
Open-source on-call scheduling, escalations, and notifications.
8270OSI-approved OSS2.8k77Active
66Butler-SOS
Operational metrics microservice for monitoring Qlik Sense environments.
8073OSI-approved OSS2977Active
67MCPCat
Analytics platform for MCP server owners.
7765OSI-approved OSS11672Active
68ServiceRadar
Zero-trust open source network management and observability platform.
7160OSI-approved OSS91667Warning
69Akmatori
Open-source AI agents for incident management.
7062OSI-approved OSS3567Warning
70Kubeshark
Kubernetes network observability platform for inspecting cluster traffic.
6757OSI-approved OSS12.1k63Warning
71Tailpipe
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.
6752OSI-approved OSS57961Warning
72Monigo
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!
6254OSI-approved OSS41158Warning
73Helicone
🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓
6445OSI-approved OSS6.2k56Warning
74Nagvis
Visualization addon for your open source monitoring core
6538OSI-approved OSS12154Warning
75Beaconchain Dashboard
Open-source dashboard for ethereum and gnosis validator performance tracking.
6143OSI-approved OSS353Warning
76OpenLLMetry
Open-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry
5940OSI-approved OSS7.4k51Warning
77Evidently
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.
5934OSI-approved OSS7.9k49Warning
78NyaayWatch
Open-source observability layer for India's courts.
5933OSI-approved OSS349Warning
79highlight.io
highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.
5538OSI-approved OSS9.4k48Warning
80NodeGet
Next-generation server monitoring and management tools
5141OSI-approved OSS31147Warning
81StackPatrol
Single-binary server monitor that alerts on infrastructure failures.
4843OSI-approved OSS146Critical
82NetWatcher
Open-source distributed network monitoring platform.
4631OSI-approved OSS240Critical
83Nerdlog
Nerdlog: fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server
4725OSI-approved OSS1.6k39Critical
84DodoPulse
Monitor macOS system metrics in real time with graphs for CPU, memory, GPU, network, and disk performance.
4617OSI-approved OSS235Critical
85OpenClaw Telemetry
Capture and monitor tool calls, LLM requests, and agent sessions with telemetry.
4617OSI-approved OSS135Critical
86Nightmend
AI-powered monitoring platform with auto-remediation and runbooks.
3926OSI-approved OSS1934Critical
87Uptrace
Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs
3819OSI-approved OSS4.3k30Critical
88LLMOps Stack
Modular open-source LLMOps stack for API routing, evaluation, and observability.
3613OSI-approved OSS15127Critical
89MonadPulse
Independent open-source analytics platform for Monad with live blocks, validators, staking, gas, and alerts.
2710OSI-approved OSS020Critical
90Zipkin
Distributed tracing system for collecting and querying timing data from services.
283OSI-approved OSS17.5k18Critical
91OpsRobot
Observability platform for Digital Employee with tracing, session insights, and cost analysis for multi-agent workflows.
175OSI-approved OSS13512Critical
92Telescope
Web-based log viewer UI. Explore logs data stored in several sources: ClickHouse, Kubernetes or Docker
164OSI-approved OSS71211Critical
93CloudSavvy
Monitor and detect anomalies in AWS accounts to aid in cost reduction and performance improvement.
130OSI-approved OSS08Critical
94AI Error Tracking Platform
AI-powered error tracking and monitoring platform with multi-channel notifications.
110OSI-approved OSS07Critical
95NeoHtop
💪🏻 Blazing-fast system monitoring for your desktop (built with Rust, Tauri & Svelte)
100OSI-approved OSS9.4k6Critical

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.

netxms

NetXMS - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management

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.