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Observability Agents

Tools that run on hosts to collect and forward logs, metrics, and other observability data to centralized monitoring systems.

47 projects

237,773 contributors

$7.3B

Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Contributors

116,692

Organizations

22,007

Software value

$5.8B

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software. OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

Contributors

25,845

Organizations

5,411

Software value

$304M

Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open source project and maintained independently of any company.

Contributors

20,909

Organizations

5,314

Software value

$38M

Sentry

Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

Contributors

10,056

Organizations

2,846

Software value

$101M

Telegraf

Telegraf is an open-source server agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics and data. It supports gathering metrics from a wide variety of sources and writing them into multiple output destinations including InfluxDB, Prometheus, Kafka, and many others. The agent is plugin-driven with extensive input, processor, aggregator, and output plugins available.

Contributors

9,347

Organizations

1,909

Software value

$21M

Beats

Beats is a collection of lightweight data shippers that collect and send operational data like logs, metrics, and network data to Elasticsearch. Each Beat is a specialized agent designed for specific use cases like system metrics (Metricbeat), log files (Filebeat), network data (Packetbeat), and more.

Contributors

7,381

Organizations

1,475

Software value

$86M

Netdata

Netdata is a distributed, real-time performance and health monitoring solution for systems, hardware, containers and applications. It provides detailed insights through interactive visualizations and automated anomaly detection, collecting thousands of metrics with zero configuration.

Contributors

5,439

Organizations

1,216

Software value

$65M

Datadog Agent

The Datadog Agent is a software daemon that collects system metrics, application traces, logs, and other monitoring data from hosts and containers. It processes and forwards this telemetry to Datadog's cloud platform for monitoring, visualization, and analysis of infrastructure and application performance.

Contributors

4,675

Organizations

1,204

Software value

$116M

Vector

Vector is a high-performance observability data pipeline that collects, transforms, and routes logs, metrics, and traces from various sources to multiple destinations. It acts as a vendor-agnostic data streaming platform designed for reliability and efficiency in modern cloud-native environments.

Contributors

4,400

Organizations

1,170

Software value

$15M

Wazuh

Wazuh is an open source security platform that provides unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. It performs threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and regulatory compliance through integrated capabilities for log analysis, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability detection, and security configuration assessment.

Contributors

4,224

Organizations

377

Software value

$102M

cAdvisor

cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is an open-source tool that provides container users with resource usage and performance characteristics of their running containers. It collects, aggregates, processes, and exports information about running containers, including usage statistics, resource isolation parameters, and network statistics.

Contributors

3,226

Organizations

987

Software value

$1.4M

Falco

Falco, the open source cloud-native runtime security project, is the defacto Kubernetes threat detection engine. Falco detects unexpected application behavior and alerts on threats at runtime.

Contributors

2,907

Organizations

781

Software value

$61M

collectd

Collectd is a system statistics collection daemon that gathers metrics about system performance and provides mechanisms to store and monitor the values in a variety of ways. It collects metrics about CPU, memory, disk usage, network traffic, and various other system-level data points.

Contributors

2,646

Organizations

683

Software value

$5.3M

Network UPS Tools

Network UPS Tools (NUT) is a software project that provides monitoring and management capabilities for uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) devices. It enables users to monitor power status, control UPS functions, and safely shut down systems during power events across multiple operating systems and UPS hardware models.

Contributors

1,945

Organizations

284

Software value

$8.3M

psutil

psutil is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors) in Python. It provides a consistent interface across multiple operating systems for system monitoring, profiling, limiting process resources, and managing running processes.

Contributors

1,889

Organizations

555

Software value

$1.6M

Icinga 2

The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.

Contributors

1,856

Organizations

348

Software value

$5.2M

Elastic Agent

Elastic Agent is a unified agent that manages monitoring, security, and other operational tasks for hosts and containers. It collects data, monitors systems, and integrates with Elastic's observability and security solutions.

Contributors

1,536

Organizations

218

Software value

$24M

Grafana Agent

Grafana Agent is a telemetry collector and forwarder that can collect metrics, logs, and traces from various sources and send them to Grafana-operated or compatible backends. It is designed to be lightweight, efficient, and configurable, supporting multiple observability protocols and integrations.

Contributors

1,313

Organizations

382

Software value

$12M

Munin

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that helps analyze computer performance and usage trends. It uses a master/node architecture to gather data from multiple systems, creates RRD files for storage, and generates graphs to visualize system metrics like CPU, memory, network usage, processes and more.

Contributors

1,005

Organizations

235

Software value

$2.8M

Dozzle

Dozzle is a real-time log viewer for Docker containers, providing a web-based interface to monitor and inspect container logs with automatic refresh, filtering capabilities, and a clean user interface

Contributors

938

Organizations

182

Software value

$1.1M

Nagios Plugins

Nagios Plugins is an official collection of monitoring plugins used with Nagios Core and other monitoring applications. These plugins allow users to monitor services, systems, and network resources by executing scripts that check their status and return standardized results.

Contributors

917

Organizations

182

Software value

$3.7M

Diamond

Diamond is a Python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to monitoring systems like Graphite. It gathers statistics from servers, services, and the operating system, allowing for system monitoring and performance tracking.

Contributors

871

Organizations

233

Software value

$3.8M

Checkmk

Checkmk is an open source IT infrastructure monitoring solution that provides comprehensive monitoring of servers, applications, cloud services, containers, storage, databases and networks. It combines the flexibility of custom plugins with enterprise scalability and a modern web interface.

Contributors

821

Organizations

92

Software value

$81M

Nagios Core

Nagios Core

Contributors

772

Organizations

96

Software value

$6M

APM Server

APM Server is a component of Elastic's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution that receives performance data from APM agents, processes it, and transforms it into Elasticsearch documents. It acts as an intermediary between APM agents and Elasticsearch, handling the ingestion and processing of application metrics, traces, and errors.

Contributors

735

Organizations

153

Software value

$9M

Elastic APM Node.js Agent

The Elastic APM Node.js Agent is an application performance monitoring (APM) agent that automatically collects detailed performance metrics and errors from Node.js applications. It integrates with the Elastic Stack to provide real-time monitoring, distributed tracing, and error tracking capabilities for Node.js-based services.

Contributors

708

Organizations

205

Software value

$2.9M

Elastic APM .NET Agent

The Elastic APM .NET Agent is an application performance monitoring agent that automatically collects detailed performance information from .NET applications and sends it to Elastic APM Server. It provides real-time monitoring of application metrics, errors, and distributed traces to help developers identify and fix performance issues.

Contributors

638

Organizations

123

Software value

$8.6M

Performance Co-Pilot

Performance Co-Pilot

Contributors

568

Organizations

93

Software value

$86M

Categraf

Categraf is a high-performance monitoring agent written in Go that collects metrics from various systems and services. It is designed to be lightweight, extensible, and compatible with multiple time-series databases including Prometheus and M3DB.

Contributors

490

Organizations

37

Software value

$7.3M

Insights Core

Insights Core is a framework and collection of tools developed by Red Hat for analyzing system configuration, logs, and other data to detect potential issues and provide recommendations. It enables the creation of rules and plugins to perform system analysis and troubleshooting across Red Hat products.

Contributors

447

Organizations

49

Software value

$7.3M

sysstat

Sysstat is a collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux systems that collects, reports and saves system activity information. It includes utilities like sar, iostat, mpstat and pidstat for monitoring CPU, memory, network, I/O and other system resources.

Contributors

409

Organizations

98

Software value

$2.2M

ABRT

ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) is a daemon that detects application crashes and other problematic termination events in Linux systems. It collects debugging information and can automatically report issues to bug tracking systems, helping developers identify and fix software problems.

Contributors

391

Organizations

60

Software value

$1.9M

Grafana Beyla

Grafana Beyla is an eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool that automatically detects and monitors HTTP and gRPC services running on a system, providing observability without requiring code changes. It captures service metrics and traces by leveraging eBPF technology to monitor system calls and network traffic.

Contributors

320

Organizations

97

Software value

$64M

Zabbix

Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.

Contributors

318

Organizations

41

Software value

$144M

Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS is an enterprise-grade IT monitoring solution that provides comprehensive infrastructure monitoring, including servers, networks, applications, and cloud services. It offers features like real-time monitoring, alerting, reporting, and capacity planning through a unified web interface.

Contributors

238

Organizations

19

Software value

$91M

Spine

Cacti ™

Contributors

225

Organizations

21

Software value

$259K

Stern

Stern is a command-line tool for multi-pod and container log tailing in Kubernetes clusters. It allows users to tail multiple pods on Kubernetes and multiple containers within the pod, with color-coded output for easy log differentiation.

Contributors

183

Organizations

85

Software value

$193K

Archived

Fonio

ingraind is an security monitoring agent born for the cloud.

Contributors

182

Organizations

80

Software value

$4.8M

Mackerel Agent

Mackerel Agent is a monitoring agent software that collects system metrics and custom metrics from servers and sends them to the Mackerel monitoring service. It runs as a daemon process on various operating systems including Linux, Windows, and macOS, gathering information about CPU, memory, disk, network usage and other system statistics.

Contributors

158

Organizations

48

Software value

$471K

Parca Agent

Parca Agent is a continuous profiling tool that collects and analyzes runtime performance data from systems and applications. It works as a companion to the Parca server, gathering CPU, memory, and other performance metrics with minimal overhead.

Contributors

153

Organizations

73

Software value

$428K

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