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Open-source, agent-based monitoring platform delivering per-second metrics, edge ML anomaly detection, tiered time-series storage and centralized cloud UI.
79.9k stars6.5k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
9 self-hosted Lightstep Observability alternatives
Cloud-native observability platform that collects, correlates, and analyzes distributed traces, metrics, and logs to monitor applications, troubleshoot incidents, and improve performance across microservices and distributed systems.
Alternatives to Lightstep Observability
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and time-series database for collecting metrics, querying with PromQL, and alerting on system and application health.
65.3k stars10.7k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
#3
Sentry is a developer-focused platform for error tracking, performance monitoring, and tracing to help teams detect, investigate, and fix issues faster.
44.4k stars4.8k forkslast commit Actively maintained
#4
Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool providing a terminal dashboard, web UI, and REST/XML-RPC APIs for local or remote monitoring and exporting metrics.
33.2k stars1.8k forkslast commit Actively maintained
#5
SigNoz is an open-source platform that collects and correlates logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry for unified observability.
31.7k stars2.4k forkslast commit Actively maintained
Fast, resource-efficient time series database compatible with Prometheus and Grafana, for scalable monitoring and long-term metrics storage.
17.4k stars1.7k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
#7
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring and observability platform for networks, servers, VMs, applications, and cloud infrastructure, with alerting and dashboards.
6.1k stars1.2k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Parseable ingests, analyzes, and extracts insights from MELT telemetry data with predictive analytics and a unified SQL/NL querying interface.
2.4k stars167 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#9
Lightweight Prometheus exporter that exposes metrics from the *arr suite (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc.) for monitoring and Grafana dashboards.
414 stars18 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
What replacing Lightstep Observability actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 9 of 9 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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