Metrics, logs, traces, and incidents
Open Observability Stack
Source-visible observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and incident-response projects compared across one operational ecosystem.
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Leading projects in this ecosystem
Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and adoption tie-breakers. Openness labels are shown explicitly.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Stars | Openness | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GrafanaOpen-source observability platform | 100 | 100 | 75.8k | Open core | 100 |
| 2 | Langfuse๐ชข Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. ๐YC W23 | 100 | 100 | 32k | OSI-approved OSS | 100 |
| 3 | SigNozSigNoz 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. | 100 | 100 | 31.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 100 |
| 4 | PrefectPrefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python. | 100 | 100 | 23.5k | OSI-approved OSS | 100 |
| 5 | OpikDebug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards. | 100 | 100 | 20.9k | OSI-approved OSS | 100 |
| 6 | OpenObserveOpen 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. | 100 | 100 | 20.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 100 |
| 7 | VictoriaMetricsVictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database | 100 | 100 | 17.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 100 |
| 8 | Open SREBuild your own AI SRE agents. The open source toolkit for the AI era โจ | 98 | 100 | 9.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 9 | BifrostFastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 ยตs overhead at 5k RPS. | 98 | 100 | 6.8k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 10 | RuViewฯ RuView: WiFi DensePose turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time human pose estimation, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection โ all without a single pixel of video. | 98 | 98 | 86.8k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 11 | LiteLLMPython SDK, Proxy Server (AI Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format, with cost tracking, guardrails, loadbalancing and logging. [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, VLLM, NVIDIA NIM] | 98 | 98 | 54.8k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 12 | MastraFramework for building AI-powered applications and agents with TypeScript. | 96 | 100 | 26.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 13 | TracecatOpen-source security automation platform for teams and AI agents | 96 | 98 | 3.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 14 | EffectBuild production-ready applications in TypeScript | 95 | 100 | 15k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 15 | CentreonCentreon 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. | 95 | 100 | 162 | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 16 | LatitudeLatitude is the open-source agent engineering platform | 95 | 98 | 4.5k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 17 | LangWatchThe platform for LLM evaluations and AI agent testing | 95 | 98 | 3.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 18 | HyperDXResolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry. | 93 | 100 | 9.8k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 19 | GreptimeDBThe open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces โ replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES. | 93 | 100 | 6.5k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 20 | OpenLITOpen source platform for AI Engineering: OpenTelemetry-native LLM Observability, GPU Monitoring, Guardrails, Evaluations, Prompt Management, Vault, Playground. ๐๐ป Integrates with 50+ LLM Providers, VectorDBs, Agent Frameworks and GPUs. | 93 | 100 | 2.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 21 | SupervisionWe write your reusable computer vision tools. ๐ | 96 | 92 | 48.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 96 |
| 22 | KomariSimple server monitoring tool. | 95 | 98 | 5.5k | OSI-approved OSS | 96 |
| 23 | ELMOOpen source AI visibility tracking. | 93 | 98 | 205 | OSI-approved OSS | 96 |
| 24 | AgentaThe open-source LLMOps platform: prompt playground, prompt management, LLM evaluation, and LLM observability all in one place. | 92 | 98 | 4.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 96 |
| 25 | ArthurMonitoring and governance platform for AI and ML. | 91 | 98 | 85 | OSI-approved OSS | 96 |
| 26 | MCP Context ForgeAI gateway, registry, and proxy for MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs. | 95 | 95 | 4.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 27 | SentryDeveloper-first error tracking and performance monitoring | 93 | 95 | 44.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 28 | PyroscopeContinuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code | 93 | 95 | 11.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 29 | VectorA high-performance observability data pipeline. | 93 | 95 | 22.2k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 30 | PrometheusThe Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. | 93 | 95 | 65.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 31 | OneUptimeComplete open-source monitoring and observability platform. | 92 | 95 | 7.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 32 | odigosDistributed tracing without code changes. ๐ Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF | 91 | 100 | 3.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 33 | TracewayThe only tool you need to know what is happening and how to fix it. | 91 | 98 | 1k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 34 | SnykDeveloper-first security platform | 91 | 95 | 5.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 35 | KitaruOpen-source platform layer for AI agents in production. | 90 | 98 | 223 | OSI-approved OSS | 95 |
| 36 | BottomYet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor. | 94 | 93 | 13.8k | OSI-approved OSS | 94 |
| 37 | WavelogWebbased Amateur Radio Logging Software - Log your contacts from everywhere! | 93 | 95 | 492 | OSI-approved OSS | 94 |
| 38 | MLflowThe open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models. MLflow enables teams of all sizes to debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production-quality AI applications while controlling costs and managing access to models and data. | 91 | 92 | 27.2k | OSI-approved OSS | 94 |
| 39 | Backend.AIBackend.AI is a streamlined, container-based computing cluster platform that hosts popular computing/ML frameworks and diverse programming languages, with pluggable heterogeneous accelerator support including CUDA GPU, ROCm GPU, Gaudi NPU, Google TPU, GraphCore IPU and other NPUs. | 88 | 98 | 658 | OSI-approved OSS | 94 |
| 40 | AxonHubโก๏ธ Open-source AI Gateway โ Use any SDK to call 100+ LLMs. Built-in failover, load balancing, cost control & end-to-end tracing. | 95 | 95 | 4.8k | OSI-approved OSS | 93 |
| 41 | DozzleRealtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s. | 93 | 94 | 13.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 93 |
| 42 | HolmesGPTSRE Agent - CNCF Sandbox Project | 93 | 94 | 2.9k | OSI-approved OSS | 93 |
| 43 | HOMEROpen-source SIP, VoIP, and RTC packet capture and monitoring platform. | 91 | 98 | 2k | OSI-approved OSS | 93 |
| 44 | Future AGIOpen-source platform for evaluating, observing, and improving LLM and AI agent applications. | 91 | 89 | 1.5k | OSI-approved OSS | 93 |
| 45 | Measure.shOpen source mobile monitoring that gets to the root cause. | 87 | 95 | 1.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 93 |
| 46 | TraceRootTraceRoot - open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents. YC S25 | 86 | 95 | 680 | OSI-approved OSS | 93 |
| 47 | JaegerDistributed tracing platform for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices. | 90 | 89 | 23k | OSI-approved OSS | 92 |
| 48 | LaminarLaminar - open-source observability platform purpose-built for AI agents. YC S24. | 90 | 87 | 3.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 92 |
| 49 | MapleOpenTelemetry observability platform. | 87 | 95 | 1.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 92 |
| 50 | LogTide๐ก๏ธ Open-source, self-hosted log management. Privacy-first alternative to Datadog & ELK. Lightweight, GDPR-compliant, and deployed in minutes with Docker. | 85 | 95 | 432 | OSI-approved OSS | 92 |
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