Open Source Linux Observability Tools
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View 44 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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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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Grafana Pyroscope
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues
Find and debug your most painful performance issues across code, infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Let you tag your data on the dimensions important for your organization. Allows you to store large volumes of high cardinality profiling data cheaply and efficiently. FlameQL enables custom queries to select and aggregate profiles quickly and efficiently for easy analysis. Analyze application performance profiles using our suite of profiling tools. Understand usage of CPU and memory resources at any point in time and identify performance issue before your customer do. Collect, store, and analyze profiles from various external profiling tools in one central location. Link to your Open Telemetry tracing data and get request-specific or span-specific profiles to enhance other observability data like traces and logs. -
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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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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. -
MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. It provides a set of APIs to directly measure the performance and behavior of your software and send this data to observability platforms. High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability. OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior. -
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Grafana
Leading open-source visualization and observability platform
Grafana OSS is the leading open-source platform for visualization and observability. It enables teams to query, visualize, alert on, and explore telemetry data from multiple sources in a single interface. With support for 100+ data source plugins—including Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, SQL/NoSQL databases, and OpenTelemetry—Grafana helps teams correlate metrics, logs, and traces across applications and infrastructure. Users can build interactive dashboards with rich visualizations, template variables, and reusable panels to monitor systems and troubleshoot issues in real time. Grafana includes capabilities such as ad hoc data exploration, alerting, annotations, and flexible query support. Its extensible plugin ecosystem integrates with cloud platforms, databases, and developer tools—allowing teams to build observability workflows without vendor lock-in. The easiest way to get started with Grafana is with Grafana Cloud, our fully managed, full-stack observability platform. -
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Lunary
The production toolkit for LLMs. Observability, prompt management
Lunary helps developers of LLM Chatbots develop and improve them. -
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qryn
All-in-one Polyglot Observability stack with ClickHouse storage
All the greatest observability formats and integrations you love, at once - LGTM Drop-in compatible. Let's get Polyglot. qryn independently implements popular observability standards, protocols and query languages. Make sure you have sufficient memory and disk resources allocated for your node service and clickhouse server when dealing with large amounts of data and fingerprints. We suggest 8GB RAM or higher for most setups with 100k-1M fingerprints. Observe your daily and weekly data consumption to forecast your disk usage requirements. Compression codecs and other optimizations can be performed at the ClickHouse level. -
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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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Open Service Mesh
Cloud native service mesh to uniformly manage environments
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud-native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments. The OSM project builds on the ideas and implementations of many cloud-native ecosystem projects including Linkerd, Istio, Consul, Envoy, Kuma, Helm, and the SMI specification. OSM runs an Envoy based control plane on Kubernetes, can be configured with SMI APIs, and works by injecting an Envoy proxy as a sidecar container next to each instance of your application. The proxy contains and executes rules around access control policies, implements routing configuration, and captures metrics. The control plane continually configures proxies to ensure policies and routing rules are up to date and ensures proxies are healthy. -
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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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Opik
Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLMapps, RAG systems, and agentic AI
Confidently evaluate, test, and monitor LLM applications. Opik is an open-source platform for evaluating, testing, and monitoring LLM applications. Built by Comet. Record, sort, search, and understand each step your LLM app takes to generate a response. Manually annotate, view, and compare LLM responses in a user-friendly table. Log traces during development and in production. Run experiments with different prompts and evaluate against a test set. Choose and run pre-configured evaluation metrics or define your own with our convenient SDK library. Consult built-in LLM judges for complex issues like hallucination detection, factuality, and moderation. -
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Tracee
Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF
Tracee is a runtime security and observability tool that helps you understand how your system and applications behave. It is using eBPF technology to tap into your system and expose that information as events that you can consume. Events range from factual system activity events to sophisticated security events that detect suspicious behavioral patterns. -
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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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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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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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KubeVela
The Modern Application Platform
KubeVela is a modern software delivery platform that makes deploying and operating applications across today's hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier, faster and more reliable. KubeVela is infrastructure agnostic, programmable, yet most importantly, application-centric. It allows you to build powerful software, and deliver them anywhere. Declare your deployment plan as workflow, run it automatically with any CI/CD or GitOps system, extend or re-program the workflow steps with CUE. Glue and orchestrate all your infrastructure capabilities as reusable modules and share the large growing community addons. No ad-hoc scripts, no dirty glue code, just deploy. The deployment workflow in KubeVela is powered by Open Application Model. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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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DeepFlow
Application Observability using eBPF
DeepFlow provides a universal map with Zero Code by eBPF for production environments, including your services in any language, third-party services without code and all cloud-native infrastructure services. In addition to analyzing common protocols, Wasm plugins are supported for your private protocols. Full-stack golden signals of applications and infrastructures are calculated, pinpointing performance bottlenecks at ease. Zero Code distributed tracing powered by eBPF supports applications in any language and infrastructures including gateways, service meshes, databases, message queues, DNS, and NICs, leaving no blind spots. Full-stack network performance metrics and file I/O events are automatically collected for each Span. Distributed tracing enters a new era, Zero Instrumentation. DeepFlow collects profiling data at a cost of below 1% with Zero Code, plots OnCPU/OffCPU function call stack flame graphs, and locates Full Stack performance bottleneck in the application. -
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Elastic APM Node.js Agent
Elastic APM Node.js Agent
This is the official Node.js application performance monitoring (APM) agent for the Elastic Observability solution. It is a Node.js package that runs with your Node.js application to automatically capture errors, tracing data, and performance metrics. APM data is sent to your Elastic Observability deployment -- hosted in Elastic's cloud or in your own on-premises deployment -- where you can monitor your application, create alerts, and quick identify root causes of service issues. First, you will need an Elastic Stack deployment. This is a deployment of APM Server (which receives APM data from the APM agent running in your application), Elasticsearch (the database that stores all APM data), and Kibana (the application that provides the interface to visualize and analyze the data). If you do not already have an Elastic deployment to use, follow this APM Quick Start guide to create a free trial on Elastic's cloud. -
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Eye
Process monitoring tool. Inspired from Bluepill and God
Process monitoring tool. Inspired from Bluepill and God. Requires Ruby(MRI) >= 1.9.3-p194. Uses Celluloid and Celluloid::IO. Eye is an image processing and analysis library for quickly analyzing image patterns and features, often used in computer vision tasks. -
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Kamon Telemetry
Distributed Tracing, Metrics and Context Propagation for applications
Kamon Telemetry is a set of libraries for instrumenting applications running on the JVM. With Kamon Telemetry you can collect metrics, propagate context across threads and services, and get distributed traces automatically. The best way to get started is by following our installation guides and taking it from there. Have fun with Kamon. Monitor your backend applications, fix performance issues, and get alerted when problems happen. All without being a monitoring expert. Everybody starts monitoring with logs because they are there by default. Just connect to your server and start tailing. But logs have a hard time showing you the overall response times for your application, or whether certain calls to the database are happening in sequence or parallel (among a million other things). -
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KubeSphere
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter
KubeSphere is a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management, using Kubernetes as its kernel. It provides a plug-and-play architecture, allowing third-party applications to be seamlessly integrated into its ecosystem. KubeSphere is also a multi-tenant container platform with full-stack automated IT operation and streamlined DevOps workflows. It provides developer-friendly wizard web UI, helping enterprises to build out a more robust and feature-rich platform, which includes most common functionalities needed for enterprise Kubernetes strategy, see Feature List for details. KubeSphere Lite provides you with free, stable, and out-of-the-box managed cluster service. After registration and login, you can easily create a K8s cluster with KubeSphere installed in only 5 seconds and experience feature-rich KubeSphere.