Topic
Open-source startups tagged #observability
10 open-source startups in this directory carry the GitHub topic #observability. 8 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 2 have been quiet for 31–120 days, 0 have not pushed in over 120 days. Topics are set by each repository’s own maintainers, so this is what those projects chose to call themselves rather than a category we assigned.
8 of 10 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 10, 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.
| Project | What it does | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| netdata/netdata | The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams. | 80.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| langfuse/langfuse | 🪢 Open source agent evals & observability: Trace, evaluate, and improve LLM applications with one open platform. | 34.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 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. | 32.2K | 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. | 22.1K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics | VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database | 17.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| openzipkin/zipkin | Zipkin is a distributed tracing system | 17.5K | Slowed | Aug 6, 2026 |
| kubesphere/kubesphere | The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️ | 17.1K | Slowed | Jul 15, 2026 |
| ccfos/nightingale | Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization. | 13.3K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 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. | 12.1K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| grafana/pyroscope | Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code | 11.7K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
Related collections
Sideways from here.
The 8 largest other topics 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 →