I can't recommend Grafana anymore

1. perses

   1 11 2,353 9.6 Go

   The CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus, Tempo, Loki and Pyroscope - more data sources to come!

   

   I mentioned it in another reply, but https://perses.dev/ is probably the most promising alternative.

   Besides that, if you're feeling masochistic you could use Prometheus' console templates or VictoriaMetrics' built-in dashboards.

   Though these are all obviously nowhere near as feature rich and capable as Grafana and would only be able to display metrics for the single Prom/VM node they're running on. Might enough for some users.

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3. signoz

   2 394 31,828 9.9 TypeScript

   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.

   

   you can check out: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

   open source and opentelemetry-native. Lots of our users have migrated from grafana to overcome challenges like having to handle multiple backends.

   p.s - i am one of the maintainers.

4. pint

   3 3 1,041 9.6 Go

   Prometheus rule linter/validator (by cloudflare)

   

   IMHO in a way the constant churn of Grafana made it easier to live with it. When they break your dashboards every major release you just learn to let go. And by break it’s not just making it error and not work, it’s the constant moving of things around, refactoring the UI, replacing one component with another, all accompanied by a number of glitches every time they rewrite things. You just accept and ignore it eventually.

   What’s a bigger lock in for me is metrics and promql - you just can’t ever rename a poorly named metric or you face a world of pain. Or when Prometheus releases Native Histograms to replace the old ones, and suddenly everything from rules, alerts, ad-hoc queries and dashboards needs updating.

   And PromQL is so opaque, it just never give you an error unless there is a syntax issue. We need tools like https://github.com/cloudflare/pint just to know if my alert description isn’t trying to render a label that’s just not gonna be there, etc

5. OpenSearch-Dashboards

   4 7 2,110 9.9 TypeScript

   📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.

   

   https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards (Kibana fork) is one. But Grafana is still way better if you just stay away from anything that isn't dashboard, explorer and traces.

6. Centreon

   5 5 162 9.9 PHP

   Centreon is a network, system and application monitoring tool. Centreon is the only AIOps Platform Providing Holistic Visibility to Complex IT Workflows from Cloud to Edge.

   

   I ran with Centreon for a while because you got Nagios + integrated dashboarding out of the box and a Community option.

   I'm out of that game now though so don't have the challenge.

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7. greptimedb

   6 25 6,547 9.9 Rust

   The open-source observability database. One columnar engine for metrics, logs, and traces, on object storage.

   

   We also started with the typical kube-prometheus-stack, but we don’t like Prometheus/PromQL. Moreover, it only solves the „metrics“ part - to handle logs and traces, more quite heavy and complex components have to be added to the observability stack.

   This didn‘t feel right, so we looked around and found greptimedb https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb, which simplifies the whole stack. It‘s designed to handle metrics, logs, and traces. We collect metrics and logs via OpenTelemetry, and visualize them with Grafana. It provides endpoints for Postgres, MySQL, PromQL; we‘re happy to be able to build dashboards using SQL as that’s where we have the most knowledge.

   The benchmarks look promising, but our k8s clusters aren’t huge anyway. As a platform engineer, we appreciate the simplicity of our observability stack.

   Any other happy greptimedb users around here? Together with OTel, we think we can handle all future obs needs.

8. gigapipe

   7 13 1,697 9.1 Go

   qryn is a polyglot, high-performance observability framework for ClickHouse. Ingest, store and analyze logs, metrics and telemetry traces from any agent supporting Loki, Prometheus, OTLP, Tempo, Elastic, InfluxDB and many more formats and query transparently using Grafana or any other compatible client.

   

   Thank you for that. I absolutely love that this uses tantivy.

   I was previously leaning torwards VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaTraces (I will need both) but I think that OpenObserve is even simpler. Later I found Gigapipe/qryn https://github.com/metrico/gigapipe

   Does OpenObserve ships something to view traces and metrics? (it appears that Gigapipe does). Or am I supposed to just use Grafana? I want to cut down on moving pieces.

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10. openobserve

    8 59 20,954 10.0 TypeScript

    Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, frontend monitoring, pipelines and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

    

    Check OpenObserve https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve. It precisely was built to solve the challenges around grafana nd elastic. This is not a stack that you will need to weave together, just a single binary/container that would suffice for most users' needs - logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts.

    Disclosure: I am a maintainer of OpenObserve

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