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24 alternatives to Autometrics Observability Stack

An open source observability stack for your backends

Autometrics is an open source observability stack designed for backend developers. It provides automatic instrumentation, pre-built dashboards, and context-rich alerts sent directly to Slack without manual setup. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Autometrics Observability Stack launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Developer-first observability framework

    2023 · autometrics.dev · its alternatives →

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    Dash0 ▲552

    Your OpenTelemetry native observability tool

    2024 · dash0.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs

    Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →

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    Fix bugs faster with open source, AI native observability

    2025 · traceroot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Real-time observability dashboard for OpenClaw AI agents

    Feb 2026 · clawmetry.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. We’re open-sourcing a set of extensions we’ve built on top of OpenTelemetry that provide visibility into LLM applications - whether it be prompts, vector DBs and more. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry. There’s already a decent number of tools for LLM observability, some open-source and some not. But what we found was missing for all of them is that they were closed-protocol by design, vendor-locking you to use their observability platform or their proprietary framework for running your LLMs. It’s still early in the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS/TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    superlog▲497

    Hey HN, we’re Nico and Arseniy, co-founders of Superlog (https://superlog.sh). We're building a self-installing, self healing observability tool meant not to be opened. It has a wizard that daily sets up proper logging and an agent that investigates errors and opens PRs. Super short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFhU9Mk247M. In our earlier startups, we tried Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Dash0, and nothing was good enough. Proper telemetry and alerting still requires a ton of manual setup. We struggled with adding good logs, so debugging was tough, especially as…

    Jun 2026 · superlog.sh · its alternatives →

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    Easily digestible infographic dashboards

    2017 · dashmetrics.io · its alternatives →

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    Openlit▲152

    One click observability & evals for LLMs & GPUs

    2024 · openlit.io · its alternatives →

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    KloudMate▲279

    Logs, metrics, and traces in one platform. KloudMate helps engineers find and fix issues fast. Ask the built-in AI assistant to help track down the cause.

    2023 · kloudmate.com · its alternatives →

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    A high-performance observability data pipeline. Contribute to vectordotdev/vector development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A common open source approach to observability will begin with databases and visualizations for telemetry - Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger. But observability doesn’t begin and end here: these tools require configuration, dashboard customization, and may not actually pinpoint the data you need to mitigate system risks. Coroot was designed to solve the problem of manual, time-consuming observability analysis: it handles the full observability journey — from collecting telemetry to turning it into actionable insights. We also strongly believe that simple observability should be an innovation…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Openlayer▲197

    Slack or email alerts for when your AI fails

    2023 · openlayer.com · its alternatives →

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    Uptrace is an all-in-one tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. It uses OpenTelelemetry observability framework to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it. You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more. The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes: - User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards. - Pre-built dashboard…

    2022 · app.uptrace.dev · its alternatives →

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    Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform. - OneUptime/oneuptime

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Sam, Alex and Ben from Invaria (formerly Patchwork Technologies): http://invaria.io. Observability is built on telemetry (metrics, logs and traces). Telemetry data quality is often poor because instrumenting code is still a time consuming task which requires a lot of hand-finishing. We believe that structured event data is the right end goal, and we’re starting by making it easier to get there using structured logging. For our Launch HN (Aug), we set up a demo instance with pre-baked results. We wanted to go further to allow HN readers to give the product a proper test…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Monitaur▲144

    Datadog for Web3

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    LLMonitor▲128

    Open source monitoring and production toolkit for AI apps

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hello folks, We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files. OpenObserve…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Observal is self-hosted registry for your coding agent extensions with a built in insight engine. Setup Observal, define the scope and share your Skills, MCPs and Agents with your peers. - Observal/Observal

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re the team behind Fiddler, and we recently built an Agent Cache feature. It works by capturing an LLM request/response pair and, once caching is enabled, serving subsequent matching calls locally so duplicate requests never hit the provider. It’s meant to reduce three pains that show up together in agent development: token cost, feedback-loop latency, and output non-determinism. We’d love to hear your thoughts.

    Aug 2026 · telerik.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! After building an observability software (Instana) and selling it to IBM, I wanted to approach observability differently this time—simpler, more open, and built with developers like me in mind. That’s why I started Dash0. Dash0 is natively built on OpenTelemetry, so logs, metrics, and traces are handled without extra hoops. You can send data via OTLP directly, through an OpenTelemetry Collector, or use our open-source Kubernetes operator to get started quickly. I didn’t want a tool that forces people into proprietary systems, so Dash0 supports PromQL for querying and alerting and…

    2024 · dash0.com · its alternatives →

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    TraceLLM▲100

    OpenTelemetry for production AI applications

    Jul 2026 · tracellm.in · its alternatives →

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