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View 41 business solutionsBrowse free open source Observability tools and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Observability tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Zenflow- The AI Workflow Engine for Software DevsZenflow is the AI workflow engine built for real teams. Parallel agents plan, code, test, and verify in one workflow. With spec-driven development and deep context, Zenflow turns requirements into production-ready output so teams ship faster and stay in flow.
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Grafana
Leading open-source visualization and observability platform
Grafana OSS is a leading open-source visualization and observability platform that lets you query, visualize, alert on, and explore your data—regardless of where it’s stored. With support for 100+ data source plugins (such as Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, SQL/NoSQL databases, OTel, and more), you can unify metrics, logs, traces, and other observability signals in one place. Grafana OSS empowers you to build dynamic, reusable dashboards with rich visualizations, template variables, interactive filtering, and cross-panel linking. Its Explore mode enables ad-hoc queries and side-by-side comparisons of time ranges, queries, and data sources. Grafana also includes built-in alerting, allowing you to define threshold-based rules and send notifications to external systems (e.g. Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie). Backed by a strong community (https://grafana.com/community/) and open governance, Grafana OSS is free to use, modify, and deploy under the AGPL-3.0 license. -
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Dagster
An orchestration platform for the development, production
Dagster is an orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets. Dagster as a productivity platform: With Dagster, you can focus on running tasks, or you can identify the key assets you need to create using a declarative approach. Embrace CI/CD best practices from the get-go: build reusable components, spot data quality issues, and flag bugs early. Dagster as a robust orchestration engine: Put your pipelines into production with a robust multi-tenant, multi-tool engine that scales technically and organizationally. Dagster as a unified control plane: The ‘single plane of glass’ data teams love to use. Rein in the chaos and maintain control over your data as the complexity scales. Centralize your metadata in one tool with built-in observability, diagnostics, cataloging, and lineage. Spot any issues and identify performance improvement opportunities. -
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LINKERD
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes
Enterprise power without enterprise complexity. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to any Kubernetes cluster. 100% open source, CNCF graduated, and written in Rust. Instantly add latency-aware load balancing, request retries, timeouts, and blue-green deploys to keep your applications resilient. Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy micro-proxy written in Rust for security and performance. Self-contained control plane, incrementally deployable data plane, and lots and lots of diagnostics and debugging tools. Transparently add mutual TLS to any on-cluster TCP communication with no configuration. Designed by engineers, for engineers. -
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SigNoz
SigNoz is an open-source APM. It helps developers monitor their apps
Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. Visualise Metrics, Traces and Logs in a single pane of glass. You can see metrics like p99 latency, error rates for your services, external API calls and individual end points. You can find the root cause of the problem by going to the exact traces which are causing the problem and see detailed flamegraphs of individual request traces. Run aggregates on trace data to get business relevant metrics. Filter and query logs, build dashboards and alerts based on attributes in logs. -
Rezku Point of SaleRezku is an all-inclusive ordering platform and management solution for all types of restaurant and bar concepts. You can now get a fully custom branded downloadable smartphone ordering app for your restaurant exclusively from Rezku.
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Vector
A high-performance observability data pipeline
Vector is a Rust‑based, high‑performance observability data pipeline tool (agent + aggregator) designed to collect, transform, and route logs and metrics at scale. Created by Datadog, it aims to be the only tool needed from ingestion to vendor output, providing cost-efficient, safe, and flexible telemetry processing. -
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fluentbit
Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor for Linux, BSD, OSX
Fluent Bit is a super-fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder. It is the preferred choice for cloud and containerized environments. A robust, lightweight, and portable architecture for high throughput with low CPU and memory usage from any data source to any destination. Proven across distributed cloud and container environments. Highly available with I/O handlers to store data for disaster recovery. Granular management of data parsing and routing. Filtering and enrichment to optimize security and minimize cost. The lightweight, asynchronous design optimizes resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O, network. No more OOM errors! Integration with all your technology, cloud-native services, containers, streaming processors, and data backends. Fully event-driven design leverages the operating system API for performance and reliability. All operations to collect and deliver data are asynchronous. -
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Cilium
eBPF-based networking, security, and observability
Cilium is open-source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads, cloud-native, and fueled by the revolutionary Kernel technology eBPF. Kubernetes doesn't come with an implementation of Load Balancing. This is usually left as an exercise for your cloud provider or in private cloud environments an exercise for your networking team. Cilium can attract this traffic with BGP and accelerate leveraging XDP and eBPF. Together these technologies provide a very robust and secure implementation of Load Balancing. Cilium and eBPF operate at the kernel layer. With this level of context we can make intelligent decisions about how to connect different workloads whether on the same node or between clusters. With eBPF and XDP Cilium enables significant improvements in latency and performance and eliminates the need for kube-proxy entirely. -
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Elementary
Open-source data observability for analytics engineers
Elementary is an open-source data observability solution for data & analytics engineers. Monitor your dbt project and data in minutes, and be the first to know of data issues. Gain immediate visibility, detect data issues, send actionable alerts, and understand the impact and root cause. Generate a data observability report, host it or share with your team. Monitoring of data quality metrics, freshness, volume and schema changes, including anomaly detection. Elementary data monitors are configured and executed like native tests in dbt your project. Uploading and modeling of dbt artifacts, run and test results to tables as part of your runs. Get informative notifications on data issues, schema changes, models and tests failures. Inspect upstream and downstream dependencies to understand impact and root cause of data issues. -
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OpenLLMetry
Open-source observability for your LLM application
The repo contains standard OpenTelemetry instrumentations for LLM providers and Vector DBs, as well as a Traceloop SDK that makes it easy to get started with OpenLLMetry, while still outputting standard OpenTelemetry data that can be connected to your observability stack. If you already have OpenTelemetry instrumented, you can just add any of our instrumentations directly. -
AI-based, Comprehensive Service Management for Businesses and IT ProvidersChangeGear provides IT staff with the functions required to manage everything from ticketing to incident, change and asset management and more. ChangeGear includes a virtual agent, self-service portals and AI-based features to support analyst and end user productivity.
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OpenTelemetry Collector
OpenTelemetry Collector
The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process, and export telemetry data. In addition, it removes the need to run, operate, and maintain multiple agents/collectors in order to support open-source telemetry data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, etc.) to multiple open-source or commercial back-ends. -
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Tetragon
eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement
Tetragon is a flexible Kubernetes-aware security observability and runtime enforcement tool that applies policy and filtering directly with eBPF, allowing for reduced observation overhead, tracking of any process, and real-time enforcement of policies. Observe the complete lifecycle of every process on your machine with Kubernetes context awareness. Translate high-level policies for file monitoring, network observability, container security, and more into low-overhead eBPF programs. Synchronous monitoring, filtering, and enforcement completely in the kernel with eBPF. -
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coroot
Open-source observability for microservices
Collecting metrics, logs, and traces alone doesn't make your applications observable. Coroot turns that data into actionable insights for you. Enable system observability in minutes, no code changes required. Each release is automatically compared with the previous one, so you'll never miss even the slightest performance degradation. With integrated Cost Monitoring, developers can track how each change affects their cloud bill. Understand your cloud costs down to any given application. Doesn't require access to your cloud account or any other configurations. Analyze any unexpected spike in CPU or memory usage down to the precise line of code. Don't make assumptions, know exactly what the resources were spent on. Easily investigate any anomaly by comparing it to the system's baseline behavior. -
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Apache APISIX
The cloud-native API gateway
Provides rich traffic management features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability, and more. Based on the Nginx library and etcd. Cloud-native microservices API gateway, delivering the ultimate performance, security, open source and scalable platform for all your APIs and microservices. Apache APISIX is based on Nginx and etcd. Compared with traditional API gateways, APISIX has dynamic routing and plug-in hot loading, which is especially suitable for API management under micro-service system. You can use Apache APISIX as a traffic entrance to process all business data, including dynamic routing, dynamic upstream, dynamic certificates, A/B testing, canary release, blue-green deployment, limit rate, defense against malicious attacks, metrics, monitoring alarms, service observability, service governance, etc. -
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Arize Phoenix
Uncover insights, surface problems, monitor, and fine tune your LLM
Phoenix provides ML insights at lightning speed with zero-config observability for model drift, performance, and data quality. Phoenix is an Open Source ML Observability library designed for the Notebook. The toolset is designed to ingest model inference data for LLMs, CV, NLP and tabular datasets. It allows Data Scientists to quickly visualize their model data, monitor performance, track down issues & insights, and easily export to improve. Deep Learning Models (CV, LLM, and Generative) are an amazing technology that will power many of future ML use cases. A large set of these technologies are being deployed into businesses (the real world) in what we consider a production setting. -
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Artillery
Cloud-scale load testing. Fully serverless, test any stack
Artillery is cloud-native, open source, and integrates with your favorite monitoring and CI/CD stack. Load test anything, at any scale. The most advanced load-testing platform in the world. Get started and run a test in minutes from your local machine. Then scale it out effortlessly. Free & open-source. Artillery scales like no other. Run your tests from your own AWS account with no infra to set up or manage. Use Playwright to load test with real browsers. Test HTTP, WebSocket, Socket.io, gRPC, Kafka, HLS, and more. Write scenarios with multi-step interactions. Designed for testing transactional APIs and web apps. Use ready-made integrations or write custom logic in Node.js, using any of the thousands of useful npm modules. Artillery integrates with the software you know, love and rely on. -
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BFE
A modern layer 7 load balancer from baidu
BFE (Beyond Front End) is a modern layer 7 load balancer from baidu. BFE has a builtin plugin framework that makes it possible to develop new features rapidly by writing plugins. BFE is designed to provide every tenant a dedicated share of the instance. Each tenant’s configuration is isolated and remains invisible to other tenants. BFE supports HTTP, HTTPS, SPDY, HTTP2, gRPC, WebSocket, TLS, FastCGI, etc. Future support is planned for HTTP/3. BFE provides an advanced domain-specific language to describe routing rules which are easy to understand and maintain. BFE supports global load balancing and distributed load balancing for zone aware balancing, zone level failure resilience, overload protection etc. BFE provides a rich set of plugins for traffic management, security, observability, etc. BFE includes detailed built-in metrics for all subsystems. BFE writes various logs for trouble shooting, data analysis and visualization. BFE also supports distributed tracing. -
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Conduit
Conduit streams data between data stores. Kafka Connect replacement
Conduit is a data streaming tool written in Go. It aims to provide the best user experience for building and running real-time data pipelines. Conduit comes with batteries included, it provides a UI, common connectors, processors and observability data out of the box. Sync data between your production systems using an extensible, event-first experience with minimal dependencies that fit within your existing workflow. Eliminate the multi-step process you go through today. Just download the binary and start building. Conduit connectors give you the ability to pull and push data to any production datastore you need. If a datastore is missing, the simple SDK allows you to extend Conduit where you need it. Conduit pipelines listen for changes to a database, data warehouse, etc., and allows your data applications to act upon those changes in real-time. Run it in a way that works for you; use it as a standalone service or orchestrate it within your infrastructure. -
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Deckhouse
Kubernetes platform from Flant
Deckhouse is a Kubernetes platform that allows you to create homogeneous K8s clusters on any infrastructure. It manages clusters comprehensively and “automagically” and provides all necessary modules and add-ons for autoscaling, observability, security, and service mesh implementation. Deckhouse has vanilla Kubernetes under the hood and integrates a balanced set of Open Source tools that have become the industry standard. Out-of-the-box secure configuration of the Kubernetes cluster, least component privileges, pre-configured role model, end-to-end object identity in the audit system, and integration with external directory services. Built-in implementation of Pod Security Standards and a ready-to-use, extensible set of recommended policies. Deckhouse automates many routine deployment, scaling, and infrastructure management operations out of the box. It manages system software on the nodes (kernel, CRI, kubelet), basic Kubernetes components (control plane, etc, certificates, etc.). -
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Envoy
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Envoy is an open source, high-performance edge/middle/service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It was built by Lyft to solve the common problem of networking and observability when moving to a distributed architecture. Envoy is a proxy designed for single services and applications. Aside from that it is also a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. It runs right along with every application, and abstracts the network by providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner. With Envoy, visualizing problem areas becomes a lot easier thanks to consistent observability. It also helps with overall performance tuning, and easily adding substrate features in one place. -
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OneUptime
OneUptime is the complete open-source observability platform
OneUptime is a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing your online services. Whether you need to check the availability of your website, dashboard, API, or any other online resource, OneUptime can alert your team when downtime happens and keep your customers informed with a status page. OneUptime also helps you handle incidents, set up on-call rotations, run tests, secure your services, analyze logs, track performance, and debug errors. -
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OpenLIT
OpenLIT is an open-source LLM Observability tool
OpenLIT is an OpenTelemetry-native tool designed to help developers gain insights into the performance of their LLM applications in production. It automatically collects LLM input and output metadata and monitors GPU performance for self-hosted LLMs. OpenLIT makes integrating observability into GenAI projects effortless with just a single line of code. Whether you're working with popular LLM providers such as OpenAI and HuggingFace, or leveraging vector databases like ChromaDB, OpenLIT ensures your applications are monitored seamlessly, providing critical insights including GPU performance stats for self-hosted LLMs to improve performance and reliability. This project proudly follows the Semantic Conventions of the OpenTelemetry community, consistently updating to align with the latest standards in observability. -
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tapir
Declarative, type-safe web endpoints library
Declarative, type-safe web endpoints library. With tapir, you can describe HTTP API endpoints as immutable Scala values. Each endpoint can contain a number of input and output parameters. Compile-time guarantees, develop-time completions, read-time information. Separate the shape of the endpoint (the "what"), from the server logic (the "how"). Generate documentation from endpoint descriptions. Leverage the metadata to report rich metrics and tracing information. Re-use common endpoint definitions, as well as individual inputs/outputs. Library, not a framework, integrates with your stack. Is your company already using tapir? We're continually expanding the "adopters" section in the documentation; the more the merrier! It would be great to feature your company's logo, but in order to do that, we'll need to write permission to avoid any legal misunderstandings. -
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Alibaba iLogtail
Fast and Lightweight Observability Data Collector
iLogtail was born for observable scenarios and has many production-level features such as lightweight, high performance, and automated configuration, which are widely used internally by Alibaba Group and tens of thousands of external Alibaba Cloud customers. You can deploy it in physical machines, Kubernetes and other environments to collect telemetry data, such as logs, traces and metrics. Supports a variety of Logs, Traces, and Metrics data collection, and is friendly to container and Kubernetes environment support. The resource cost of data collection is quite low, 5-20 times better than similar telemetry data collection Agent performance. High stability, used in the production of Alibaba and tens of thousands of Alibaba Cloud customers, and collecting dozens of petabytes of observable data every day with nearly tens of millions deployments. -
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Jaeger
Monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed systems
As on-the-ground microservice practitioners are quickly realizing, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application. Jaeger, inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies. It is used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems. OpenTracing compatible data model and instrumentation libraries include Go, Java, Node, Python, C++ and C#. Jaeger uses consistent upfront sampling with individual per service/endpoint probabilities and it has multiple storage backends: Cassandra, Elasticsearch, memory. -
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OpenObserve
Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for (logs, metrics, traces)
OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform built specifically for logs, metrics, traces, and analytics designed to work at a petabyte scale. It is very simple and easy to operate as opposed to Elasticsearch which requires a couple of dozen knobs to understand and tune which you can get up and running in under 2 minutes. It is a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch if you are just ingesting data using APIs and searching using Kibana (Kibana is not supported nor required with OpenObserve. OpenObserve provides its own UI which does not require separate installation unlike Kibana). You can reduce your log storage costs by ~140x compared to Elasticsearch by using OpenObserve. Below are the results when we pushed logs from our production Kubernetes cluster to Elasticsearch and OpenObserve using fluent bit. OpenObserve stored data in Amazon s3 and Elasticsearch stored data on Amazon EBS volumes.
