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OpenSrc lists 64 repositories about Observability with open issues for new contributors, and 30 of them are first-PR friendly. Between them they have 1,149 open good first issues and 967 help-wanted issues. The median welcome score is 75/100, and the best-scored right now are jaegertracing/jaeger, grafana/grafana and Icinga/icinga2. Most are written in Go, TypeScript and C++. Many also touch DevOps & Cloud and Machine Learning & AI.

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  • jaegertracing/jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    18good first issues+42 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:23.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • grafana/grafana

    The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces…

    21good first issues+13 help wanted
    • TypeScript
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Data Science
    • Stars:77K
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score88 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • Icinga/icinga2

    The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.

    44good first issues+9 help wanted
    • C++
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Backend
    • Stars:2.2K
    • GPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~21h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • AnjanJ/rails_error_dashboard

    Self-hosted error tracking for Rails - zero recurring cost, full data ownership.

    13good first issues+9 help wanted
    • Ruby
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Editors
    • Stars:92
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~21h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • elastic/kibana

    Your window into all of your data

    110good first issues
    • TypeScript
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:21.3K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • OpsiMate/OpsiMate

    Open-source alert management for NOC/DevOps teams: one queue for Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix, Uptime Kuma and…

    38good first issues
    • TypeScript
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:226
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • louislam/uptime-kuma

    A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

    11good first issues+24 help wanted
    • JavaScript
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:91.9K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • getsentry/sentry

    Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

    10good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Python
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:44.9K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • opensearch-project/security

    🔐 Secure your cluster with TLS, numerous authentication backends, data masking, audit logging as well as…

    15good first issues+37 help wanted
    • Java
    • Field: Security
    • Field: Backend
    • Stars:253
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2d
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • getsentry/sentry-dotnet

    Sentry SDK for .NET

    19good first issues+1 help wanted
    • C#
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:768
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • thanos-io/thanos

    Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

    40good first issues+75 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:14.2K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • GreptimeTeam/greptimedb

    The open-source observability database. One columnar engine for metrics, logs, and traces, on object storage.

    19good first issues+13 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Databases
    • Stars:6.7K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • traceroot-ai/traceroot

    TraceRoot - open source self improving layer for ai agents YC S25

    36good first issues+32 help wanted
    • TypeScript
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:786
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • elastic/elastic-agent

    Elastic Agent - single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host.

    13good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:280
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2h
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • yagcioglutoprak/dusty

    Free, open-source CleanMyMac alternative for macOS. Preview disk cleanup by path and size, inspect memory by…

    21good first issues+22 help wanted
    • Swift
    • Field: Editors
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:77
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • vectordotdev/vector

    A high-performance observability data pipeline.

    23good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Data Science
    • Stars:22.6K
    • MPL-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • Graylog2/graylog2-server

    Free and open log management

    12good first issues
    • Java
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Security
    • Stars:8.2K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • perses/perses

    The CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus, Tempo, Loki and Pyroscope…

    21good first issues+16 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:2.5K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~4d
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io

    The OpenTelemetry website and documentation

    15good first issues+54 help wanted
    • JavaScript
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Docs Tooling
    • Stars:976
    • CC-BY-4.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • zeek/zeek

    Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.

    9good first issues
    • C++
    • Field: Security
    • Field: Networking
    • Stars:8K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~8h
    Score80 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • google/perfetto

    Production-grade client-side tracing, profiling, and analysis for complex software systems.

    4good first issues
    • C++
    • Field: OS
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:6.6K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~1h
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • parca-dev/parca

    Continuous profiling for analysis of CPU and memory usage, down to the line number and throughout time…

    9good first issues+12 help wanted
    • TypeScript
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:5K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib

    Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector

    12good first issues+27 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:5K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • getsentry/sentry-cocoa

    The official Sentry SDK for iOS, tvOS, macOS, watchOS, iPadOS and visionOS.

    9good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Swift
    • Field: Mobile
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:1.1K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • juspay/hyperswitch

    Open source, composable payments platform | PCI compliant | SaaS and Self-host options | Enables connectivity…

    236good first issues+106 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Backend
    • Field: Security
    • Stars:45.2K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score78 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • quickwit-oss/quickwit

    Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

    26good first issues+6 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:11.7K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score78 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • TwiN/gatus

    Automated developer-oriented status page with alerting and incident support

    18good first issues+7 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:12.2K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score77 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • namhyung/uftrace

    Function graph tracer for C/C++/Rust/Python

    14good first issues+19 help wanted
    • C
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:3.5K
    • GPL-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score77 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • carverauto/serviceradar

    Open-Source Network Management, Monitoring, ITOM, and Security Analytics

    8good first issues+6 help wanted
    • Elixir
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: Networking
    • Stars:919
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score77 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation

    Zero-code OpenTelemetry instrumentation powered by eBPF

    8good first issues+11 help wanted
    • C
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:580
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score76 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

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