Monitoring
Observability
Metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, and application observability platforms.
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.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Openness | Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Grafana Open-source observability platform | 99 | 99 | Open core | 76.7k | 99 | Active |
| 02 | Sentry Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring | 99 | 99 | OSI-approved OSS | 44.8k | 99 | Active |
| 03 | Future AGI Open-source platform for evaluating, observing, and improving LLM and AI agent applications. | 98 | 99 | OSI-approved OSS | 2k | 98 | Active |
| 04 | Langfuse 🪢 Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. 🍊YC W23 | 98 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 34.5k | 98 | Active |
| 05 | Opik Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards. | 98 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 22k | 98 | Active |
| 06 | OpenObserve 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. | 98 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 21.8k | 98 | Active |
| 07 | Open SRE Build your own AI SRE agents. The open source toolkit for the AI era ✨ | 98 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 11k | 98 | Active |
| 08 | TraceRoot TraceRoot - open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents. YC S25 | 97 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 768 | 98 | Active |
| 09 | LibreNMS Community-based network monitoring system. | 98 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.9k | 97 | Active |
| 10 | LangWatch The platform for LLM evaluations and AI agent testing | 97 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.8k | 97 | Active |
| 11 | Netdata The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams. | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 80.5k | 97 | Active |
| 12 | Prometheus The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 66.1k | 97 | Active |
| 13 | SigNoz 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. | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 32.1k | 97 | Active |
| 14 | Vector A high-performance observability data pipeline. | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 22.5k | 97 | Active |
| 15 | VictoriaMetrics VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 17.7k | 97 | Active |
| 16 | HyperDX Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry. | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 9.9k | 97 | Active |
| 17 | GreptimeDB The open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces — replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES. | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.7k | 97 | Active |
| 18 | Latitude Latitude is the open-source agent engineering platform | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.6k | 97 | Active |
| 19 | Performance Co-Pilot Performance Co-Pilot | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.1k | 97 | Active |
| 20 | Arthur Monitoring and governance platform for AI and ML. | 97 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 89 | 97 | Active |
| 21 | Dozzle Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 14.4k | 97 | Active |
| 22 | odigos Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.7k | 97 | Active |
| 23 | Centreon 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. | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 164 | 97 | Active |
| 24 | Percona PMM Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool | 97 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.1k | 96 | Active |
| 25 | HOMER Open-source SIP, VoIP, and RTC packet capture and monitoring platform. | 96 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 2k | 96 | Active |
| 26 | Traceway The only tool you need to know what is happening and how to fix it. | 96 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.5k | 96 | Active |
| 27 | Measure.sh Open source mobile monitoring that gets to the root cause. | 96 | 96 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.4k | 96 | Active |
| 28 | Glances Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems. | 96 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 33.6k | 96 | Active |
| 29 | Jaeger Distributed tracing platform for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices. | 96 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 23.2k | 96 | Active |
| 30 | Pyroscope Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code | 96 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 11.7k | 96 | Active |
| 31 | OneUptime Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform. | 95 | 98 | OSI-approved OSS | 7.6k | 96 | Active |
| 32 | Maple OpenTelemetry observability platform. | 95 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.8k | 96 | Active |
| 33 | Nightingale Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization. | 96 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 13.3k | 95 | Active |
| 34 | HertzBeat An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system. | 96 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 7.4k | 95 | Active |
| 35 | OpenLIT 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. | 96 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.8k | 95 | Active |
| 36 | Bottom Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor. | 95 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 14k | 95 | Active |
| 37 | Laminar Laminar - open-source observability platform purpose-built for AI agents. YC S24. | 95 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.3k | 95 | Active |
| 38 | Quickwit Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo. | 95 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 11.6k | 95 | Active |
| 39 | Beszel Lightweight server monitoring with historical data, docker stats, and alerts. | 95 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 25.3k | 94 | Active |
| 40 | HolmesGPT SRE Agent - CNCF Sandbox Project | 95 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.3k | 94 | Active |
| 41 | Parseable Parseable is an observability datalake built from first principles. | 94 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.5k | 94 | Active |
| 42 | OpenLinkHub Open-source web dashboard for managing Corsair AIO hardware and system metrics. | 94 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.2k | 94 | Active |
| 43 | Thanos Highly available Prometheus-compatible metrics system with long-term storage. | 95 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 14.2k | 93 | Active |
| 44 | Trickster Open source HTTP reverse proxy cache and time series dashboard accelerator. | 94 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.1k | 93 | Active |
| 45 | Komari Simple server monitoring tool. | 93 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.2k | 93 | Active |
| 46 | OpenITCOCKPIT openITCOCKPIT is an Open Source system monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines like Nagios, Naemon and Prometheus. | 93 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 382 | 93 | Active |
| 47 | LogTide 🛡️ Open-source, self-hosted log management. Privacy-first alternative to Datadog & ELK. Lightweight, GDPR-compliant, and deployed in minutes with Docker. | 92 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 448 | 93 | Active |
| 48 | Pulse Real-time monitoring for Proxmox, Docker, and Kubernetes with AI-powered insights, smart alerts, and a beautiful unified dashboard | 91 | 97 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.7k | 93 | Active |
| 49 | Checkmk Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring | 94 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.4k | 92 | Active |
| 50 | Drydock Open source container update monitoring with notifications, audit log, OIDC auth, and metrics. | 92 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 252 | 92 | Active |
| 51 | Apache SkyWalking Application performance monitoring and observability platform for distributed systems. | 93 | 90 | OSI-approved OSS | 24.9k | 91 | Active |
| 52 | changedetection.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! | 93 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 34k | 91 | Active |
| 53 | Zabbix Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud. | 93 | 88 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.4k | 91 | Active |
| 54 | CortexBrain 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 | 91 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 88 | 91 | Active |
| 55 | Logwiz Self-hosted log management platform built with SvelteKit and Quickwit. | 89 | 93 | OSI-approved OSS | 290 | 91 | Active |
| 56 | Token Telemetry Token telemetry dashboard for AI coding agents that tracks tokens, sessions, tool calls, and reasoning. | 92 | 86 | OSI-approved OSS | 353 | 90 | Active |
| 57 | Monoscope Logs, traces, and metrics explorer with S3-compatible storage. | 87 | 94 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.8k | 90 | Active |
| 58 | FUXA Web-based process visualization and SCADA/HMI dashboard software. | 91 | 86 | OSI-approved OSS | 5k | 89 | Active |
| 59 | Solectrus 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. | 88 | 90 | OSI-approved OSS | 164 | 89 | Active |
| 60 | WorldMonitor Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface | 88 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 86.3k | 88 | Active |
| 61 | Tianji Tianji: Insight into everything, Website Analytics + Uptime Monitor + Server Status. not only another GA alternatives | 85 | 92 | OSI-approved OSS | 3.1k | 88 | Active |
| 62 | Elementary 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. | 87 | 79 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.4k | 84 | Active |
| 63 | Sessy Email observability for AWS SES. | 86 | 79 | OSI-approved OSS | 924 | 83 | Active |
| 64 | sitespeed.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. | 81 | 77 | OSI-approved OSS | 5k | 79 | Active |
| 65 | GoAlert Open-source on-call scheduling, escalations, and notifications. | 82 | 70 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.8k | 77 | Active |
| 66 | Butler-SOS Operational metrics microservice for monitoring Qlik Sense environments. | 80 | 73 | OSI-approved OSS | 29 | 77 | Active |
| 67 | MCPCat Analytics platform for MCP server owners. | 77 | 65 | OSI-approved OSS | 116 | 72 | Active |
| 68 | ServiceRadar Zero-trust open source network management and observability platform. | 71 | 60 | OSI-approved OSS | 916 | 67 | Warning |
| 69 | Akmatori Open-source AI agents for incident management. | 70 | 62 | OSI-approved OSS | 35 | 67 | Warning |
| 70 | Kubeshark Kubernetes network observability platform for inspecting cluster traffic. | 67 | 57 | OSI-approved OSS | 12.1k | 63 | Warning |
| 71 | Tailpipe 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. | 67 | 52 | OSI-approved OSS | 579 | 61 | Warning |
| 72 | Monigo 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! | 62 | 54 | OSI-approved OSS | 411 | 58 | Warning |
| 73 | Helicone 🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓 | 64 | 45 | OSI-approved OSS | 6.2k | 56 | Warning |
| 74 | Nagvis Visualization addon for your open source monitoring core | 65 | 38 | OSI-approved OSS | 121 | 54 | Warning |
| 75 | Beaconchain Dashboard Open-source dashboard for ethereum and gnosis validator performance tracking. | 61 | 43 | OSI-approved OSS | 3 | 53 | Warning |
| 76 | OpenLLMetry Open-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry | 59 | 40 | OSI-approved OSS | 7.4k | 51 | Warning |
| 77 | Evidently 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. | 59 | 34 | OSI-approved OSS | 7.9k | 49 | Warning |
| 78 | NyaayWatch Open-source observability layer for India's courts. | 59 | 33 | OSI-approved OSS | 3 | 49 | Warning |
| 79 | highlight.io highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more. | 55 | 38 | OSI-approved OSS | 9.4k | 48 | Warning |
| 80 | NodeGet Next-generation server monitoring and management tools | 51 | 41 | OSI-approved OSS | 311 | 47 | Warning |
| 81 | StackPatrol Single-binary server monitor that alerts on infrastructure failures. | 48 | 43 | OSI-approved OSS | 1 | 46 | Critical |
| 82 | NetWatcher Open-source distributed network monitoring platform. | 46 | 31 | OSI-approved OSS | 2 | 40 | Critical |
| 83 | Nerdlog Nerdlog: fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server | 47 | 25 | OSI-approved OSS | 1.6k | 39 | Critical |
| 84 | DodoPulse Monitor macOS system metrics in real time with graphs for CPU, memory, GPU, network, and disk performance. | 46 | 17 | OSI-approved OSS | 2 | 35 | Critical |
| 85 | OpenClaw Telemetry Capture and monitor tool calls, LLM requests, and agent sessions with telemetry. | 46 | 17 | OSI-approved OSS | 1 | 35 | Critical |
| 86 | Nightmend AI-powered monitoring platform with auto-remediation and runbooks. | 39 | 26 | OSI-approved OSS | 19 | 34 | Critical |
| 87 | Uptrace Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs | 38 | 19 | OSI-approved OSS | 4.3k | 30 | Critical |
| 88 | LLMOps Stack Modular open-source LLMOps stack for API routing, evaluation, and observability. | 36 | 13 | OSI-approved OSS | 151 | 27 | Critical |
| 89 | MonadPulse Independent open-source analytics platform for Monad with live blocks, validators, staking, gas, and alerts. | 27 | 10 | OSI-approved OSS | 0 | 20 | Critical |
| 90 | Zipkin Distributed tracing system for collecting and querying timing data from services. | 28 | 3 | OSI-approved OSS | 17.5k | 18 | Critical |
| 91 | OpsRobot Observability platform for Digital Employee with tracing, session insights, and cost analysis for multi-agent workflows. | 17 | 5 | OSI-approved OSS | 135 | 12 | Critical |
| 92 | Telescope Web-based log viewer UI. Explore logs data stored in several sources: ClickHouse, Kubernetes or Docker | 16 | 4 | OSI-approved OSS | 712 | 11 | Critical |
| 93 | CloudSavvy Monitor and detect anomalies in AWS accounts to aid in cost reduction and performance improvement. | 13 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 0 | 8 | Critical |
| 94 | AI Error Tracking Platform AI-powered error tracking and monitoring platform with multi-channel notifications. | 11 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 0 | 7 | Critical |
| 95 | NeoHtop 💪🏻 Blazing-fast system monitoring for your desktop (built with Rust, Tauri & Svelte) | 10 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 9.4k | 6 | Critical |
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.