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  • Commit continuity, contributor activity, and delivery signals are strong.
  • Health score: 96/100.
  • Shipping score: 95/100.

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Best overallNetdata

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Healthier optionsNetdata, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry

Stronger current public-health signal than Jaeger.

Verified open/source-visibleNetdata, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry

Useful when portability and inspectability matter.

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Best-fit observability options

12 tools
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Netdata

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

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Confidence90
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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

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Confidence90
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Glances

Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

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Confidence90
Stars33.6k
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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.

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Confidence90
Stars32.1k
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Opik

Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards.

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Score98
Confidence90
Stars21.9k
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10

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.

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Score98
Confidence90
Stars21.7k
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Dozzle

Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s.

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Score96
Confidence90
Stars14.3k
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