Observability

Metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, and application observability platforms.

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Open/source-visible picks

Health-first ToolVitals score, then adoption

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OpenObserve Top Pick
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.
OSI-approved OSS
19.2k stars Active 100
02
VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
OSI-approved OSS
17.1k stars Active 100
03
Build your own AI SRE agents. The open source toolkit for the AI era ✨
OSI-approved OSS
6.8k stars Active 99

Proprietary targets

Replacement targets, not open-tool picks

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Log management platform
Active 99
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Self-hostable observability tool for web and mobile applications.
Active 90
03
NetXMS - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management
Active 85

4 tools are on Evidence Watch.

Uptime Monitoring

Uptime checks, status pages, alerting, and incident tracking.

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Open/source-visible picks

Health-first ToolVitals score, then adoption

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Uptime Kuma Top Pick
A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
OSI-approved OSS
87.9k stars Active 92
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Admin dashboard and public status pages.
OSI-approved OSS
72 stars Active 91
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Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.com/invite/NAb6H3UTjK :)
OSI-approved OSS
10k stars Active 87

Proprietary targets

Replacement targets, not open-tool picks

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Uptime monitor and status page powered by Upptime.
Warning 68
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Automatically monitors external SaaS service status pages and alerts on incidents.
Warning 65
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A global network of probes to run network tests like ping, traceroute and DNS resolve
Warning 64

1 tool is on Evidence Watch.

Incident Management

Tools for coordinating, investigating, automating, and communicating operational incident response workflows.

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Open/source-visible picks

Health-first ToolVitals score, then adoption

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A modern, open-source status page built with Next.js and PayloadCMS, designed for flexible and reliable infrastructure monitoring.
OSI-approved OSS
— stars Active 79
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Beautiful status page & uptime monitor. Ready for production out of the box.
OSI-approved OSS
— stars Warning 68
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Batteries included open-source api-first status page aggregator
OSI-approved OSS
— stars Critical 40