Open source Datadog alternatives

Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 0 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Datadog alternative; 47 more are in the category where Datadog is a typical product.

Open source projects in the same category: Observability / Datadog Alternatives

Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Datadog; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.

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ruvnet · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS101.8K
FORKS13.2K
COMMITS1.4K
CONTRIBUTORS35
VERSIONv2655
UPDATEDtoday
RustWiFi SensingIoTHome AutomationMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • By analyzing changes in WiFi signals, you can track the presence and movement of people in the environment.
  • You can measure the breathing and heart rate of people who sleep or sit with no contact.
  • You can incorporate the obtained data into smart home automations via the Home Assistant or Matter bridge.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (519)
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    feat: BFLD — Beamforming Feedback Layer for Detection (privacy-gated WiFi sensing)

    “## Summary Add a new crate `wifi-densepose-bfld` that turns raw 802.11 Beamforming Feedback Information (BFI) into bounded, privacy-gated sensing outputs. BFLD detects when RF data crosses from "ambient sensing" into "identity record" and structurally prevents…”

  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    ⭐ Tutorial: ESP32-S3 CSI Pipeline End-to-End Setup (ADR-018)

    “## ESP32-S3 CSI Pipeline: Step-by-Step Tutorial (current as of v0.6.6-esp32) > ⚠️ **Updated 2026-05-21** — original tutorial referenced paths and commands that no longer match the repo. Updated for the current state of [ruvnet/RuView]( (note: the repo was renamed from…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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SigNoz · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS32.5K
FORKS2.6K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS210
VERSIONv0.99.0
UPDATEDtoday
ObservabilityMetricsTracinglogsMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You analyze application metrics, logs, and distributed tracking data across a single platform.
  • You monitor the performance of infrastructure components, including Kubernetes clusters, nodes and workloads.
  • You follow requests in LLM applications by associating token usage and RAG processes with other telemetry data.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (1,578)
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic

    “Hi, I want to love this product. This will be the 3rd or 4th time I have looked at the docs to figure out basic setup. Each time I look into this. I look to see how it can report CPU/Memory/Disk of the systems at large. When I read, all I find on open telemetry and SigNoz is how…”

  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic

    “We recommend users to run SigNoz in a separate k8s cluster/VM. In this way, even if your applications servers/clusters get overloaded, your observability stack (SigNoz) will still be running seamlessly. Many of our users use SigNoz in a similar fashion.”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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henrygd · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS26.7K
FORKS1.1K
COMMITS1.6K
CONTRIBUTORS149
VERSIONv0.19.0
UPDATEDtoday
GoSunucu İzlemeDockerSistem YönetimiMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can track the CPU, memory and network usage history of server resources and Docker containers.
  • CPU can create customizable alerts for critical values such as disk, temperature, and fan speed.
  • You can automatically back up system data to the local disk or to S3 compatible storage areas.
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Beszel: Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats

    “Nice project. The Docker stats view looks clean. Been using fivenines.io for similar stuff, handles Proxmox and QEMU VMs without needing agents on each one, which saves some setup time. Beszel looks solid for the self-hosted crowd though.”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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jaegertracing · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS23.4K
FORKS3.2K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS477
VERSIONv2.9.0
UPDATEDtoday
GoDistributed TracingCNCFApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You view and examine the collected Trace data through the Query service Jaeger UI.
  • You can send trace data from applications configured with OpenTelemetry SDK via HTTP or gRPC.
  • By accessing the Jaeger interface, you can examine system flow and trace data.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (583)
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System

    “@necubi I do not disagree with you about the value of tail-based sampling. It has been an item on Jaeger roadmap from day one, but never of high enough priority to implement it. We're planning to do a POC by the end of this year. Jaeger's agent-based architecture was…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System

    “Jaeger is just the concrete implementation. OpenTracing is what you should think about using when writing your application. That said, you could benefit from automatic instrumentation via OpenTracing framework integration libraries (JAX-RS, Servlets, ...). Or use the Java Agent.…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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pranshuparmar · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS22.9K
FORKS806
COMMITS588
CONTRIBUTORS38
VERSIONv0.3.3
UPDATED8 days ago
GoSystem MonitoringCLITUIApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can monitor the initial chain of any process, port, container, or file running on the system.
  • You can examine data via the command line or with the help of an interactive TUI panel.
  • You can get the outputs in the machine-readable JSON format.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

    “`witr` is trying to be a bit different. Here are few use cases to consider: - When a process started. - Which ports a process is using. - Which user started it. - From which directory it started. - env flag to list all the variables attached to the process. - json flag to use it…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

    “Just to update, witr is currently available on brew and AUR. deb, rpm and apk packages are also available in the release, and can be run directly via nix without installation.”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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didi · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS20.4K
FORKS3.2K
COMMITS2.3K
CONTRIBUTORS92
VERSION3.1.7
UPDATED11 days ago
JavaVerimlilik PlatformuMobil GeliştirmeDebuggingApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You use performance detection tools to test application performance.
  • With color selector, component control, alignment ruler, and edge drawing tools, you control the color, location, and alignment of interface components within the application.
  • You integrate private business tools into the panel.

Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source

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VictoriaMetrics · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS18.0K
FORKS1.8K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS396
VERSIONv1.99.0-cluster
UPDATEDtoday
GoMetricsTSDBApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can use it as a long-term data storage space for Prometheus.
  • Within Grafana, you can directly integrate it instead of Prometheus or Graphite.
  • You can manage large volumes of time series data from APM, Kubernetes and IoT sensors.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (786)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

    “VictoriaMetrics does support occasional updates/deletes (e.g. you may need it for GDPR compliance).”

  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale

    “Let me explain my experience with tsdb selection. in 2018 we understood that we need something for long term storage. Selection was between thanos, elasticsearch and m3db. M3db looks promising but after reading issues and docs i found i have to test it like database not like a…”

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openzipkin · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS17.5K
FORKS3.1K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS142
VERSIONzipkin-server-0.2.0
UPDATED2 mo ago
distributed-tracingObservabilityMicroservicesapmApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • A trace in the log file reaches the relevant tracking data directly through ID
  • You question by attributes such as service, operation name, labels, and duration
  • You examine the dependency diagram that shows what applications the requests go through.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Zipkin - distributed tracing by Twitter (aka Google Dapper)

    “We came up with the name by putting all kinds of words into Google translate and making sure they weren't trademarked. Zipkin seemed short and sweet and wasn't widely used before.”

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Effect-TS · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS17.4K
FORKS887
COMMITS11.0K
CONTRIBUTORS322
VERSION@effect/[email protected]
UPDATEDtoday
TypeScriptFunctional ProgrammingDependency InjectionConcurrencyMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can manage type safe error management and dependency injection processes.
  • You can edit complex workflows with structured synchronicity and timing mechanisms.
  • You can perform unified schema verification operations for different platforms and SQL databases.
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants

    “>Well, I don't think you'll be able to avoid testicle atrophy even if it minimizes it I only take 250iu twice a week. 6 months in I can't see any atrophy. Some people take it every other day. This hormone HCG is very interesting. In fact it is what many urine pregnancy tests…”

  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants

    “> Some cancerous tumors produce this hormone; therefore, elevated levels measured when the patient is not pregnant may lead to a diagnosis of cancer and, if high enough, of paraneoplastic syndromes. It is unknown however whether this production is a contributing cause or an…”

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winsiderss · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS16.4K
FORKS1.8K
COMMITS16.8K
CONTRIBUTORS92
VERSIONv4.0.26241.138
UPDATEDyesterday
CWindowsSystem MonitoringOpen SourceMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can monitor system resources and running processes with detailed graphics.
  • You can detect processes that use a file and solve file access problems.
  • You can view active network connections and terminate them when necessary.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Reduced driver functionality (not yet supported on this kernel version)

    “**ISSUE DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN REWRITTEN BY MAINTAINER @jxy-s:** **For the latest kernel support, ensure you are on the latest Canary build of System Informer:** `Help > Check for updates > Canary > Check` This issue is for requesting support for new Windows kernel versions. The…”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    windows 10 reports trojan in process hacker [Fixed]

    “Just checked for update on process hacker and windows told me this: ![ph-trojan](”

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raga-ai-hub · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS16.2K
FORKS3.6K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv2.2.4
UPDATED8 mo ago
agentic-aiagentic-ai-developmentagentneoagentsApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • Projelerini ve veri setlerini (CSV'den dahil) SDK ile yönetirsin
  • Deney oluşturup metrik ekleyerek LLM uygulamanın çıktılarını değerlendirirsin
  • Ajan ve LLM çağrılarını trace ederek hata ayıklarsın
Heads up
  • • Website is unreachable (checked: 2026-10-31)
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    [BUG]: example/FinancialAnalysisSystem.ipynb cannot import name 'Execution' from 'agentneo'

    “ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) Cell In[1], [line 6](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=1&line=6) [4](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=1&line=4) import openai [5](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=1&line=5) from dotenv import load_dotenv ---->…”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Add Example Notebooks

    “Add Example notebooks for different agentic applications”

Verified against README · Oct 30, 2026 · source

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apache · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS16.2K
FORKS4.0K
COMMITS32.1K
CONTRIBUTORS329
VERSION4.1.4-rc04
UPDATEDtoday
JavaDatabaseGerçek Zamanlı AnalitikHibrit AramaApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You do hybrid search on structured, text, JSON and vector data with a single SQL engine.
  • You perform fast SQL analytics through open table formats such as Iceberg, Delta Lake and Hudi.
  • Under high concurrency, you import flow data and run queries for periods of less than a second.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (1,399)
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gojue · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS15.5K
FORKS1.6K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv2.7.0
UPDATEDtoday
CeBPFSSL/TLSSecurityApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • From libraries like OpenSSL and GoTLS, you capture SSL/TLS encrypted traffic as plain text.
  • You monitor host security by inspecting Bash and zsh shell command history.
  • You follow MySQL and MariaDB database queries with eBPF.
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thanos-io · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS14.3K
FORKS2.4K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS726
VERSIONv0.9.0-rc.0
UPDATEDtoday
prometheusMetricslong-term-storages3Apache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You query data from multiple Prometheus servers from a single point.
  • You combine and singularize metrics from Prometheus HA pairs.
  • You store historical data long-term by transferring it to object storage units.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (931)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale

    “We use Thanos to provide the observability features (monitoring in particular) to Workers (i.e. user processes we run on our Cloud) that perform the simulation. You can have multiple Workers collaborating on a simulation of the economics or ecology that export monitoring…”

  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale

    “Oh yes I already caught the demo. So Thanos was your solution for building the energy economy and the larger ecosystem? The energy simulation is what really struck me as a fundamentally challenging element in a game. Maybe largely because in the first world we don't really have…”

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ClementTsang · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS14.1K
FORKS401
COMMITS2.6K
CONTRIBUTORS86
VERSION0.14.9
UPDATEDtoday
RustSystem MonitoringUç BirimSüreç YöneticisiMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • CPU, you can graphically monitor memory, disk, network, and temperature usage over time.
  • You can list, sort, search, view and end processes in tree mode.
  • You can customize theme, layout, and widget behavior with command line options or configuration file.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)

    “Most students approach courses as a form of top-down search with a cache for items they see often. It is generally difficult to get them to reason about subjects from the bottom up. A smaller proportion of students approach courses from the bottom-up (10-20%?) - they tend to…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)

    “When I was in college I was very interested in learning computer fundamentals bottom-up, but I had some pripr experience programming a high level language. With that prior knowledge everything made sense to me. Maybe if I didn't have this prior knowledge back then the classes…”

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pinpoint-apm · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS13.9K
FORKS3.7K
COMMITS16.3K
CONTRIBUTORS125
VERSIONv3.1.0
UPDATEDyesterday
JavaAPMDistributed SystemMonitoringApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can install a APM tool without changing the code line.
  • You can study the application topology of distributed systems at a glance.
  • You can observe the detail of each process at the code level.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (513)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

    “I didn't understand what is meant by "pinpoint nearly every detail". The article is titled with that but then firehoses a bunch of technical details. The github spells it out much better:”

  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

    “so, a great politician once said: "the internet is for p0rn" - and if we accept this, what will this thing pinpoint in p0rn videos? :-D LOL”

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ccfos · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS13.4K
FORKS1.8K
COMMITS3.5K
CONTRIBUTORS167
VERSIONv9.1.1
UPDATEDyesterday
GoMonitoringAlarm YönetimiMCPApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can connect storage units such as VictoriaMetrics or ElasticSearch as data sources.
  • In distributed architectures, you can use n9e-edge to activate the alarm mechanism even if the network connection is disconnected.
  • Through the MCP protocol, you can use AI assistants to query observable data and manage alarm processes.
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    Florence Nightingale saved people with her grasp of numbers

    “For those, like me, who find the writing style somewhat annoying, this is the part of the article that relates directly to the title: > Imagine the situation Florence Nightingale confronted in the Crimea. Everyone knew that, in a war, soldiers get shot. Everyone knew that people…”

  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Florence Nightingale saved people with her grasp of numbers

    “Interesting that despite this being an Australian speech reported on an Australian site, there is no mention of Nightingale's role in the development of nursing in Australia, at the request of the great Henry Parkes. Here's his granddaughter (herself a nursing educator) on the…”

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Tracer-Cloud · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS12.6K
FORKS1.9K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv0.1.2026.9.20
UPDATEDtoday
PythonAI SREIncident ResponseAgent FrameworkApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You set up AI SRE agents that solve problems in the production environment in your own infrastructure.
  • You connect over 60 tools you already use to your system.
  • By defining custom workflows, you answer production questions.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Evaluating AI SRE Agents in Production (OpenSRE) – Evaluation

    “off late, we are being consulted for what's a good AI SRE agent and just like how one would say "it depends" , we are trying to write and explain what exactly adoption depends on , some params we rate it on - actionability and control safety, - RCA quality, - observability…”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Benchmark opensre+LLM vs LLM-alone (Cloudopsbench)

    “## What this is Run opensre+LLM against the Cloud-OpsBench test suite — honestly and reproducibly — and publish the results. This issue is the **measurement**: build and run the benchmark, and report what it shows. Product changes that come out of the results are tracked…”

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kubeshark · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS12.1K
FORKS556
COMMITS2.2K
CONTRIBUTORS46
VERSIONv53.4.0
UPDATED10 days ago
GoKuberneteseBPFAğ İzlemeApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can download package capture files across the cluster by filtering by node, time, workload, and IP addresses.
  • You can visualize network traffic through a real-time control panel that includes API, Kubernetes and network semantics.
  • Thanks to MCP protocol support, you can integrate AI assistants to do an event review with network data.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Kubeshark: The API Traffic Viewer for Kubernetes

    “Kubeshark (formerly Mizu) is an observability and monitoring tool that captures all the network traffic inside a Kubernetes cluster, including ingress, egress and across containers and pods. Kubeshark can even capture and display the encrypted (TLS) traffic using various Linux…”

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giampaolo · Observability / Datadog Alternatives

STARS11.3K
FORKS1.5K
COMMITS7.1K
CONTRIBUTORS229
VERSION—
UPDATED2 days ago
PythonSystem MonitoringSüreç YönetimiCross-PlatformBSD-3-Clause

Common commercial products in this category: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace

What can it do?
  • You can get the information of the running processes and manage the processes.
  • CPU, you can track memory, disk and network usage data.
  • You can access hardware sensor data such as temperature and battery.
Heads up
  • • No published release
User reviews
  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Wheels for free-threaded Python now available for psutil

    “Wow, long time no see. psutil is a great project and I do have some future plans involving it.”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Detect memory leaks of C extensions with psutil and psleak

    “Hey, thank you so much for all your hard work on psutil, it is my goto import! And this looks like a really interesting development you have created to add to the available tools for detecting those tricky memory leaks. I have done some work in this space as well such as how to…”