Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to kwatch
Monitor & detect crashes in Kubernetes cluster instantly
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. kwatch launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A graphical visualizer for Kubernetes cluster metrics.
2021 · its alternatives →
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groundcover▲225Monitor K8s applications effortlessly, at scale
2022 · groundcover.com · its alternatives →
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Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi. - pulumi/kubespy
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Everyone, I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback. We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem. - Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts. - The UI not…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Monitoring for websites, APIs, and cron jobs
2024 · webgazer.io · its alternatives →
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KDash▲76A simple terminal dashboard for Kubernetes built with Rust
2021 · kdash.cli.rs · its alternatives →
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Kerno▲132Hey HN! Anibal, Sean, Vlad, Maxi and Karim here we're the co-founders of Kerno (https://www.kerno.io/). We're building a zero-hassle tool to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their services in a way that makes sense. No complex rollouts, no custom infra, no tons of instrumentation, no sidecars… none of that! Just a minimum effort, out-of-the box, highly contextualized and interactive experience so you and your team can focus on shipping! We basically scan your cluster resources, build usable abstractions on top of all the kubernetes craziness, identify monitor your…
Dec 2025 · kerno.io · its alternatives →
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Debugging tool for Kubernetes which tests and displays connectivity between nodes in the cluster. - bloomberg/goldpinger
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Kubernetes native troubleshooting platform
2021 · komodor.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Everyone! Kubetail is a general-purpose logging dashboard for Kubernetes, optimized for tailing logs across multi-container workloads in real-time. With Kubetail, you can view logs from all the containers in a workload (e.g. Deployment or DaemonSet) merged into a single chronological timeline, delivered to your browser or terminal. I launched Kubetail on HN last year and at that time the top request was to add search. Now I'm happy to say we finally have search available in our latest official release (cli/v0.4.3, helm/v0.10.1). You can check it out in action here:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An eBPF tool monitoring a goroutine. Contribute to keisku/gmon development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kubescape 2.0▲112End-to-end Kubernetes security open-source platform
2022 · cloud.armosec.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · troubleshoot.sh · its alternatives →
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Canary Checker▲108Kubernetes native health check platform
2023 · canarychecker.io · its alternatives →
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The guardian angel for Kubernetes.
2017 · target.github.io · its alternatives →
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