https://mydash.onl/Recent content on Self-Hosted Observability DirectoryHugoen-usWed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/playbooks/datadog/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/playbooks/datadog/A phased path for moving metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting away from Datadog without losing operational coverage.https://mydash.onl/playbooks/honeycomb/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/playbooks/honeycomb/A cautious path for replacing Honeycomb-style event analysis with OpenTelemetry pipelines, trace backends, and queryable logs.https://mydash.onl/playbooks/new-relic/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/playbooks/new-relic/A migration plan for teams replacing New Relic APM, logs, infrastructure metrics, and dashboards with OpenTelemetry-native tooling.https://mydash.onl/playbooks/sentry/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/playbooks/sentry/A focused plan for replacing hosted Sentry with self-hosted error tracking while preserving release, source map, alerting, and ownership workflows.https://mydash.onl/playbooks/splunk/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/playbooks/splunk/A practical plan for moving expensive Splunk log search and operational dashboards to open-source log pipelines and search backends.https://mydash.onl/tools/apache-skywalking/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/apache-skywalking/Apache APM platform for service topology, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and cloud-native diagnostics.https://mydash.onl/tools/goaccess/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/goaccess/Fast terminal and HTML dashboard for analyzing web server access logs in real time.https://mydash.onl/tools/graylog/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/graylog/Mature log management and search with streams, pipelines, dashboards, and alerting. A practical Splunk alternative for log-heavy teams.https://mydash.onl/compare/graylog-vs-openobserve/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/graylog-vs-openobserve/https://mydash.onl/tools/healthchecks/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/healthchecks/Cron-job and heartbeat monitoring for scheduled tasks. It alerts when an expected ping does not arrive.https://mydash.onl/compare/healthchecks-vs-uptime-kuma/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/healthchecks-vs-uptime-kuma/https://mydash.onl/compare/netdata-vs-prometheus/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/netdata-vs-prometheus/https://mydash.onl/compare/openobserve-vs-loki/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/openobserve-vs-loki/https://mydash.onl/tools/opentelemetry-collector/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/opentelemetry-collector/Vendor-neutral telemetry collector for receiving, processing, and exporting traces, metrics, and logs.https://mydash.onl/tools/perses/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/perses/CNCF dashboarding tool with dashboards-as-code, static validation, and Kubernetes-native workflows. A GitOps-friendly Grafana alternative.https://mydash.onl/compare/perses-vs-grafana/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/perses-vs-grafana/https://mydash.onl/compare/signoz-vs-grafana/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/signoz-vs-grafana/https://mydash.onl/tools/alertmanager/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/alertmanager/The deduplication, grouping, and routing layer for Prometheus alerts. Sends to PagerDuty, Slack, email, webhooks.https://mydash.onl/compare/alertmanager-vs-karma/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/alertmanager-vs-karma/https://mydash.onl/tools/checkmk/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/checkmk/Nagios-descended infrastructure monitoring with auto-discovery, pre-built service checks, and a polished web UI. Raw edition is GPL-2.0.https://mydash.onl/tools/fluent-bit/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/fluent-bit/CNCF graduated lightweight log/metric forwarder. The default in-cluster log shipper for Kubernetes.https://mydash.onl/tools/mimir/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/mimir/Grafana Labs’ horizontally scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus-compatible long-term metrics store.https://mydash.onl/tools/grafana-oncall/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/grafana-oncall/Open-source on-call and incident-response — schedules, escalation policies, ChatOps. The closest OSS analog to PagerDuty.https://mydash.onl/tools/jaeger/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/jaeger/The CNCF graduated distributed tracing system, originally from Uber. The default open-source choice for traces.https://mydash.onl/compare/jaeger-vs-tempo/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/jaeger-vs-tempo/https://mydash.onl/compare/jaeger-vs-zipkin/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/jaeger-vs-zipkin/https://mydash.onl/tools/karma/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/karma/Drop-in dashboard for Alertmanager — multi-cluster aggregation, richer grouping UI, on-call status, silence management.https://mydash.onl/compare/loki-vs-parseable/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/loki-vs-parseable/https://mydash.onl/compare/loki-vs-quickwit/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/loki-vs-quickwit/https://mydash.onl/tools/opensearch-dashboards/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/opensearch-dashboards/Apache-2.0 fork of Kibana, paired with OpenSearch. The de-facto self-hosted alternative to Elastic for logs visualization.https://mydash.onl/tools/parseable/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/parseable/Rust-based log lake that writes Parquet to S3-compatible object storage. Compute-storage separated, indexless by design.https://mydash.onl/compare/prometheus-vs-victoriametrics/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/prometheus-vs-victoriametrics/https://mydash.onl/tools/quickwit/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/quickwit/Rust search engine for logs and traces with sub-second queries directly against S3-compatible object storage.https://mydash.onl/compare/quickwit-vs-opensearch-dashboards/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/quickwit-vs-opensearch-dashboards/https://mydash.onl/tools/robusta/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/robusta/Kubernetes-native observability that turns Prometheus alerts into actionable, context-enriched events with auto-remediation playbooks.https://mydash.onl/compare/signoz-vs-uptrace/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/signoz-vs-uptrace/https://mydash.onl/tools/thanos/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/thanos/CNCF-graduated long-term storage and global query layer for Prometheus, backed by object storage.https://mydash.onl/compare/thanos-vs-mimir/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/thanos-vs-mimir/https://mydash.onl/compare/thanos-vs-victoriametrics/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/thanos-vs-victoriametrics/https://mydash.onl/tools/vector/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/vector/High-performance observability data pipeline. Sources, transforms, sinks — written in Rust by Datadog (open source).https://mydash.onl/compare/vector-vs-fluent-bit/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/vector-vs-fluent-bit/https://mydash.onl/tools/victoriametrics/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/victoriametrics/Prometheus-compatible TSDB optimized for ingestion rate and storage cost. Single-binary by default, cluster mode for scale.https://mydash.onl/tools/zabbix/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/zabbix/Classic agent-based monitoring suite for hosts, networks, and services. Pre-Prometheus old guard, still actively developed.https://mydash.onl/compare/zabbix-vs-checkmk/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/compare/zabbix-vs-checkmk/https://mydash.onl/tools/zipkin/Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/zipkin/The original open-source distributed tracing system, born at Twitter in 2012. Single-binary simplicity, still maintained.https://mydash.onl/tools/coroot/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/coroot/eBPF-based APM for Kubernetes. Zero-instrumentation service maps and SLO dashboards.https://mydash.onl/tools/gatus/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/gatus/YAML-configured uptime monitoring with rich assertion DSL. Git-ops friendly.https://mydash.onl/tools/glitchtip/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/glitchtip/Sentry-API-compatible error tracking, but MIT-licensed and lighter. Drop-in for Sentry SDKs.https://mydash.onl/tools/grafana/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/grafana/The de-facto open-source dashboard layer. Plug into Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB — one pane of glass.https://mydash.onl/tools/loki/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/loki/Log aggregation inspired by Prometheus: index only labels, not full text. Cheap at scale.https://mydash.onl/tools/pyroscope/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/pyroscope/Continuous profiling (CPU, memory, goroutines). Now part of the Grafana stack.https://mydash.onl/tools/tempo/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/tempo/High-scale distributed tracing backend. Stores traces in cheap object storage (S3, GCS).https://mydash.onl/tools/hyperdx/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/hyperdx/Open-source Datadog alternative that correlates logs, metrics, traces, and session replays in one UI.https://mydash.onl/tools/netdata/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/netdata/Real-time per-second metrics with instant auto-discovery. Dashboards out-of-box, zero config.https://mydash.onl/tools/openobserve/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/openobserve/Rust-based, columnar, object-storage-backed. Claims 140x lower storage cost than Elasticsearch for logs.https://mydash.onl/tools/prometheus/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/prometheus/The CNCF-graduated, pull-based metrics store. Industry default for self-hosted metrics.https://mydash.onl/tools/sentry-self-hosted/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/sentry-self-hosted/The upstream product itself — Sentry offers an official self-hosted docker-compose install under FSL license.https://mydash.onl/tools/signoz/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/signoz/Full-stack, OpenTelemetry-native APM + logs + metrics. The closest single-tool Datadog alternative.https://mydash.onl/tools/uptime-kuma/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/uptime-kuma/Self-hosted uptime monitor + status page. The UptimeRobot replacement most engineers land on.https://mydash.onl/tools/uptrace/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mydash.onl/tools/uptrace/OpenTelemetry APM backed by ClickHouse. Lean alternative to SigNoz.