Top 13 open source APM tools in 2021

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  1. signoz

    SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

    Logs, metrics, and traces form the three cornerstones of full-stack APM tools. In that scenario, a tool like SigNoz can serve all your needs for application monitoring. As the instrumentation is based on OpenTelemetry, you also have the added advantage of not being locked into any product. You can try out SigNoz by visiting its GitHub repo 👇

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  3. Graphite

    A highly scalable real-time graphing system

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  4. Pinpoint

    APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  5. prometheus

    The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  6. JavaMelody

    JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

    💻 GitHub

  7. Stagemonitor

    Discontinued an open source solution to application performance monitoring for java server applications

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  8. scouter

    Scouter is an open source APM (Application Performance Management) tool.

    💻 GitHub

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  10. zipkin

    Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  11. jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  12. skywalking

    APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  13. apm-server

    APM Server

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  14. App.Metrics

    App Metrics is an open-source and cross-platform .NET library used to record and report metrics within an application.

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

  15. Glowroot

    Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM

    🌐 Website 💻 GitHub

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