Observability stacks are hard to compare because the category mixes full platforms, log viewers, metrics systems, alerting tools, status pages, and newer AI/SRE assistants. For June 2026, this section uses the supplied ToolVitals data: rank, ToolVitals score, health score, shipping score, GitHub stars, status, openness_label, license_label, pricing scope, and project descriptions.

The ranking includes open/source-visible tools only and sorts first by ToolVitals score, with GitHub stars used as a secondary popularity signal when scores are close. That means a widely starred project can rank below a smaller tool if its ToolVitals score is lower; popularity is useful context, not the main ordering rule.

Rankings

RankToolOpennessLicenseHealthShippingGitHub StarsScoreStatus
1SigNozOSI-approved OSSMIT10010027232100🟢 Excellent
2OpenObserveOSI-approved OSSAGPL-3.010010019173100🟢 Excellent
3SentryOSI-approved OSSApache-2.098954406698🟢 Excellent
4HyperDXOSI-approved OSSMIT93100958297🟢 Excellent
5DozzleOSI-approved OSSMIT93981320994🟢 Excellent
6OpenLLMetryOSI-approved OSSApache-2.09589718294🟢 Excellent
7HolmesGPTOSI-approved OSSApache-2.093100258194🟢 Excellent
8NetdataOSI-approved OSSGPL-3.092867908592🟢 Excellent
9GlancesOSI-approved OSSLGPL-3.091863277292🟢 Excellent
10TracewayOSI-approved OSSMIT859884492🟢 Excellent
11LogTideOSI-approved OSSAGPL-3.0898941292🟢 Excellent
12MaintenantOSI-approved OSSAGPL-3.0869333492🟢 Excellent
13Performance Co-PilotOSI-approved OSSLGPL-2.18587106489🟢 Excellent
14MonoscopeOSI-approved OSSAGPL-3.08387105089🟢 Excellent
15RobustaOSI-approved OSSMIT9082303288🟢 Excellent
16KeepOSI-approved OSSMIT94671190287🟢 Excellent
17NightingaleOSI-approved OSSApache-2.084731306185🟢 Excellent
18KuvaszOSI-approved OSSAGPL-3.0836952282🟢 Excellent
19CheckmkOSI-approved OSSGPL-2.07772227780🟢 Excellent
20WorldMonitorOSI-approved OSSAGPL-3.071655598977🟢 Good
21BeszelOSI-approved OSSMIT82532248575🟢 Good
22ThanosOSI-approved OSSApache-2.079591409475🟢 Good
23ServiceRadarOSI-approved OSSApache-2.0626387170🟢 Good
24CStateOSI-approved OSSMIT6714286956🟡 Fair
25LunalyticsOSI-approved OSSAGPL-3.0513073056🟡 Fair
26MonigoOSI-approved OSSApache-2.0411040944🟡 Fair
27SigLensOSI-approved OSSApache-2.03217164939🔴 Needs Attention
28WatchYourLANOSI-approved OSSMIT390702536🔴 Needs Attention
29ctopOSI-approved OSSMIT3301775632🔴 Needs Attention
30SamplerOSI-approved OSSGPL-3.03001457130🔴 Needs Attention

Top 3 Highlights

SigNoz ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 100, health score of 100, and shipping score of 100. It is listed as OSI-approved OSS under MIT, with 27,232 GitHub stars, and its description points to a broad OpenTelemetry-native observability platform covering logs, traces, and metrics in one application.

OpenObserve also has a ToolVitals score of 100, health score of 100, and shipping score of 100. It ranks second behind SigNoz because the ranking uses GitHub stars as the secondary tie-breaker: OpenObserve has 19,173 stars versus SigNoz at 27,232. It is OSI-approved OSS under AGPL-3.0 and covers logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, pipelines, and LLM observability.

Sentry ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 98, health score of 98, and shipping score of 95. It has the largest GitHub star count among the top three at 44,066, but the ranking keeps ToolVitals score first, so it follows the two 100-scoring tools. It is listed as OSI-approved OSS under Apache-2.0 and is described as developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring.

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