Category
Open-source startups in Observability
Metrics, logs, traces, error tracking and uptime monitoring: knowing what production is doing. 23 open-source startups in this directory are filed under Observability. 22 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 1 has been quiet for 31–120 days, 0 have not pushed in over 120 days. The category is chosen by Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, reading only the repository’s own name, description and homepage — one category per project, so something that spans two appears under whichever the classifier judged closest.
22 of 23 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 23, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one. The “built for” column and the “alternative to” chips are Jev’s answers about the same repository description, published with the rest of them.
| Project | What it does | Built for | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| louislam/uptime-kuma | A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool | IT and operations | 91.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| netdata/netdata | The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams. | IT and operationsalt to Datadog | 80.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| grafana/grafana | The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more. | IT and operationsalt to Splunk | 76.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| getsentry/sentry | Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring | Developers | 44.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| exelban/stats | macOS system monitor in your menu bar | Consumers | 42.1K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| dgtlmoon/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! | Consumers | 34.5K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| SigNoz/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. | Developersalt to Datadog | 32.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| henrygd/beszel | Lightweight server monitoring with historical data, docker stats, and alerts. | IT and operationsalt to Datadog | 25.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| openobserve/openobserve | Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM (web, android, ios), Session replay, pipelines, SLO and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment. | IT and operationsalt to Datadog | 22.1K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| iii-hq/iii | Effortlessly compose, extend, and observe every service in real-time for the first time ever. | Developers | 18.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics | VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database | IT and operations | 17.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| openzipkin/zipkin | Zipkin is a distributed tracing system | Developersalt to New Relic | 17.5K | Slowed | Aug 6, 2026 |
| upptime/upptime | ⬆️ GitHub Actions uptime monitor & status page by @AnandChowdhary | Developers | 17.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| winsiderss/systeminformer | A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ https://windows-internals.com | IT and operations | 16.1K | Still shipping | Sep 16, 2026 |
| cachethq/cachet | 🚦 Cachet, the open source, self-hosted status page system. | IT and operations | 15.2K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| librespeed/speedtest | Self-hosted Speed Test for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more | IT and operations | 15.2K | Still shipping | Sep 12, 2026 |
| pinpoint-apm/pinpoint | APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems. | IT and operationsalt to New Relic | 13.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| ccfos/nightingale | Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization. | IT and operationsalt to Datadog | 13.3K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| keephq/keep | The open-source AIOps and alert management platform | IT and operations | 12.3K | Still shipping | Sep 19, 2026 |
| kubeshark/kubeshark | eBPF-powered network observability for Kubernetes. Indexes L4/L7 traffic with full K8s context, decrypts TLS without keys. Queryable by AI agents via MCP and humans via dashboard. | IT and operationsalt to Datadog | 12.1K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| grafana/pyroscope | Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code | Developers | 11.7K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| bluewave-labs/Checkmate | 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 :) | IT and operationsalt to Datadog | 10.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| healthchecks/healthchecks | Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django | IT and operations | 10.4K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
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The 8 largest other categories in the directory, then the other ways to slice it. Every count is as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22.
Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you →