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  • jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    • Project mention: Observability with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Rails | dev.to | 2024-02-22

    Jaeger maps the flow of requests and data as they traverse a distributed system. These requests may make calls to multiple services, which may introduce their own delays or errors. https://www.jaegertracing.io/

  • cilium

    eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

    • Project mention: Cisco to Acquire Cloud Native Networking and Security Leader Isovalent | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-21

    They would have had to add a few externals to get to Graduated but it's definitely a minority:

    https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md

  • InfluxDB

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  • kubesphere

    The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ 🖥 ☁️

    • Project mention: KubeSphere – K8s platform tailored for hybrid multicloud | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-01

  • thanos

    Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

    • Project mention: Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's... | /r/sysadmin | 2023-12-10

    Monitoring = netdata on each RPi https://www.netdata.cloud/ binded to the vpn interface being scraped into a prometeus thaons https://thanos.io/ setup with grafana to give management the Green all is good screens (very important).

  • VictoriaMetrics

    VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

    • Project mention: OpenTelemetry Is Too Complicated | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03

    VictoriaMetrics CTO here.

    The referred library is the official OpenTelemetry package for reading metrics in Go language [1] - more details are available at [2].

    Note that we at VictoriaMetrics like the idea of unified observability standard like OpenTelemetry. The issue is in the current otel implementation. It is too bloated and very inefficient. This contradicts to our experience with observability cases, which need very optimized format for metrics' transfer in order to reduce costs on CPU and network traffic needed to transfer and process these metrics.

    VictoriaMetrics continues investing in OpenTelemetry by providing integration docs [3] and improving the existing functionality for otel metrics' ingestion [4].

    [1] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto-go

    [2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2570...

    [3] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/getting-started-with...

    [4] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/60...

  • kubeshark

    The API traffic analyzer for Kubernetes providing real-time K8s protocol-level visibility, capturing and monitoring all traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers, pods, nodes and clusters. Inspired by Wireshark, purposely built for Kubernetes

    • Project mention: Show HN: Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-06

    The one similar product I had come across is Kubeshark (https://github.com/kubeshark/kubeshark). But admittedly the eBPF way seems more performant theoretically (given you can afford to have a modern-enough kernel). I'm really excited to see how this project develops out.

    The eBPF-mode of innovation is pretty exciting, truly a fresh lens to building software. I'm also following Akita Software - the company building an eBPF paradigm of monitoring.

  • nightingale

    An all-in-one observability solution which aims to combine the advantages of Prometheus and Grafana. It manages alert rules and visualizes metrics, logs, traces in a beautiful web UI.

    • Project mention: Nightingale – Open-source alternative to Prometheus&Grafana | /r/bkup | 2023-08-24

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • kube-state-metrics

    Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

    • Project mention: Do we have any Prometheus metric to get the kubernetes cluster-level CPU/Memory requests/limits? | /r/kubernetes | 2023-07-11

  • opentelemetry-collector

    OpenTelemetry Collector

    • Project mention: OpenTelemetry Collector Anti-Patterns | dev.to | 2024-02-26

    But how does one monitor a Collector? The OTel Collector already emits metrics for the purposes of its own monitoring. These can then be sent to your Observability backend for monitoring.

  • mtail

    extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database

    • Project mention: i need to visualize all logs from remote dir | /r/sysadmin | 2023-05-19

    You can do that with something like mtail. Basically write expressions that match your logs and produce metrics.

  • mimir

    Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

    • Project mention: Monitoring Is a Pain | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-27

    It consists of 6 separate components to run, plus 4 additional optional components [1]. And I don't even count 5 additional caches [2]. How is that "simple and easy"?

    [1] https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/references/architectur...

    [2] https://github.com/grafana/mimir/blob/9a52522a05f25d6d6bc2e8...

  • coroot

    Coroot is an open-source APM & Observability tool, a DataDog and NewRelic alternative 📊, 🖥️, 👉. Powered by eBPF for rapid insights into system performance. Monitor, analyze, and optimize your infrastructure effortlessly for peak reliability at any scale.

    • Project mention: Grafana Labs Observability Survey 2024 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-26

    Take a look at https://github.com/coroot/coroot (Apache 2.0). It offers plenty of ready-to-use dashboards and inspections

  • flipt

    Enterprise-ready, GitOps enabled, CloudNative feature management solution

    • Project mention: Ask HN: How did you build feature flags? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03

    We at https://flipt.io are putting on a buy vs build webinar in a couple of weeks to discuss this very thing as it's a common question that engineering teams seem to have.

    If you're interested in attending its taking place on LinkedIn on April 17: https://www.linkedin.com/events/buildvs-buy-pickingafeaturef...

  • hubble

    Hubble - Network, Service & Security Observability for Kubernetes using eBPF

    • Project mention: Architecting for Resilience: Crafting Opinionated EKS Clusters with Karpenter & Cilium Cluster Mesh — Part 1 | dev.to | 2023-10-31

    Since we installed Hubble on the cluster, Let’s check its cool UI and see how the traffic flows between the pods. To do so, let’s run:

  • odigos

    Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF

    • Project mention: Setup odigos in Ubuntu | dev.to | 2024-04-10

    Welcome 👋 to this blog. Did you want to use odigos on your Ubuntu machine but don't know how to start? Then this blog will definitely help you and it also helps you to understand the basic aspect of the odigos project.

  • uptrace

    Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

    • Project mention: Show HN: Traces, metrics, and logs using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-27

  • datadog-agent

    Main repository for Datadog Agent

    • Project mention: How to create a link between two spans in OpenTelemetry | dev.to | 2024-04-19

  • sloth

    🦥 Easy and simple Prometheus SLO (service level objectives) generator (by slok)

    • Project mention: SLOscribe: embed SLO/SLI into GO source code | /r/sre | 2023-06-24

    It’s a CLI that allows developers to embed SLO annotation into GO code as comments and generate Prometheus alert groups when paired with Sloth, https://github.com/slok/sloth.

  • PacketStreamer

    :star: :star: :star: Distributed tcpdump for cloud native environments :star: :star: :star:

    • Project mention: Traffic Mirroring in Azure | /r/AskNetsec | 2023-05-13

    Also: - https://github.com/deepfence/PacketStreamer

  • caretta

    Instant K8s service dependency map, right to your Grafana.

  • agent

    Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines. (by grafana)

    • Project mention: Ask HN: Best solution for homelab service monitoring? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-14

    And has an agent that can be run on the host to monitor it: https://github.com/grafana/agent

  • speedbump

    TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency :globe_with_meridians::hourglass_flowing_sand:

    • Project mention: FLaNK Stack Weekly 22 January 2024 | dev.to | 2024-01-22

  • SigLens

    100x Efficient Log Management than Splunk, Reduce your observability cost by 90%

    • Project mention: Siglens: A columnar OLAP db that can execute queries 50x faster than ClickHouse | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-20

    I found their claims exaggerated: https://github.com/siglens/siglens/issues/created_by/alexey-...

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-19.

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Observability projects in Go? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 jaeger 19,370
2 cilium 18,436
3 kubesphere 14,271
4 thanos 12,569
5 VictoriaMetrics 10,781
6 kubeshark 10,525
7 nightingale 8,725
8 kube-state-metrics 5,066
9 opentelemetry-collector 3,860
10 mtail 3,738
11 mimir 3,705
12 coroot 3,473
13 flipt 3,301
14 hubble 3,270
15 odigos 3,013
16 uptrace 2,874
17 datadog-agent 2,632
18 sloth 1,947
19 PacketStreamer 1,853
20 caretta 1,649
21 agent 1,539
22 speedbump 1,472
23 SigLens 991

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