Top 23 Go Observability Projects

• jaeger

  94 19,653 9.7 Go

  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

  24 18,937 10.0 Go

  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

  7 14,493 7.3 Go

  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

  66 12,676 9.7 Go

  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

  97 11,029 9.9 Go

  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

  16 10,635 9.4 Go

  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

  3 8,972 9.6 Go

  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

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• kube-state-metrics

  33 5,151 9.0 Go

  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

  17 3,962 9.9 Go

  OpenTelemetry Collector

  

Project mention: Using Cloud Monitoring to Monitor IRIS-Based Applications Deployed in GKE | dev.to | 2024-05-23

We see three pods (one for each node). These pods are managed by a DaemonSet, and called by the Google Kubernetes Engine Metrics Agent (gke-metrics-agent). Under the hood, this agent leverages the Open Telemetry Collector enhanced by Google-specific features. You can spend some time looking at its configuration, which is thoroughly described on the page OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration Format.

• coroot

  33 4,282 9.2 Go

  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: Coroot: Open-source alternative to Datadog/NewRelic | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-24

• mtail

  23 3,762 9.1 Go

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

  

• mimir

  36 3,777 9.9 Go

  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...

• flipt

  19 3,371 9.9 Go

  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...

• odigos

  40 3,056 9.8 Go

  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

  29 2,987 9.2 Go

  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

  6 2,687 10.0 Go

  Main repository for Datadog Agent

  

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

• sloth

  11 1,968 0.0 Go

  🦥 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

  15 1,857 2.8 Go

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

  

• caretta

  11 1,716 2.9 Go

  Instant K8s service dependency map, right to your Grafana.

  

• agent

  21 1,553 9.9 Go

  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

  17 1,481 1.2 Go

  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

  1 1,089 9.7 Go

  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-...

• sensu-go

  4 988 2.5 Go

  Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.

  

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