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Distributed tracing

A system that collects and shows traces of requests across services, such as Jaeger or Zipkin.

The 11 repositories with this Tag gained +1,341 net stars in the last 30 days.

The repositories with Star History for both periods gained 1.0× the net stars of the 30 days before.

0 created in the last 90 days · 8 published a release in the last 30 days · 168K stars in total

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Net stars each day, last 30 days +376 last 7 days

Oct 13, 2026 Nov 11, 2026

Most net stars, last 30 days

openobserve/openobserve

Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM (web, android, ios), Session replay, pipelines, SLO and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

+694

52% of the net stars of this Tag

Largest Pace, last 30 days

No other repository gained 2 or more times the net stars of the 30 days before.

Most stars, created in the last 90 days

No other repository with this Tag was created in the last 90 days.

Where the stars went, last 13 weeks

Net stars gained each week. The repositories that gained the most have their own color.

openobserve/openobserve gained 49% of the net stars of this Tag in the last 13 weeks.

openobserve/openobserve, week to Aug 19: +386 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Aug 19: +88 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Aug 19: +32 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Aug 19: +36 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Aug 19: +10 net stars All other repositories, week to Aug 19: +44 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Aug 26: +160 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Aug 26: +85 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Aug 26: +31 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Aug 26: +27 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Aug 26: +13 net stars All other repositories, week to Aug 26: +34 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Sep 2: +122 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Sep 2: +88 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Sep 2: +34 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Sep 2: +15 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Sep 2: +9 net stars All other repositories, week to Sep 2: +37 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Sep 9: +100 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Sep 9: +82 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Sep 9: +22 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Sep 9: +37 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Sep 9: +11 net stars All other repositories, week to Sep 9: +33 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Sep 16: +284 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Sep 16: +84 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Sep 16: +29 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Sep 16: +51 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Sep 16: +6 net stars All other repositories, week to Sep 16: +38 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Sep 23: +141 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Sep 23: +83 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Sep 23: +21 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Sep 23: +21 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Sep 23: +12 net stars All other repositories, week to Sep 23: +26 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Sep 30: +112 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Sep 30: +97 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Sep 30: +27 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Sep 30: +23 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Sep 30: +19 net stars All other repositories, week to Sep 30: +28 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Oct 7: +83 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Oct 7: +70 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Oct 7: +16 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Oct 7: +16 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Oct 7: +10 net stars All other repositories, week to Oct 7: +22 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Oct 14: +98 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Oct 14: +74 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Oct 14: +42 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Oct 14: +25 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Oct 14: +19 net stars All other repositories, week to Oct 14: +23 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Oct 21: +82 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Oct 21: +75 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Oct 21: +34 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Oct 21: +22 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Oct 21: +13 net stars All other repositories, week to Oct 21: +40 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Oct 28: +125 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Oct 28: +53 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Oct 28: +24 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Oct 28: +16 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Oct 28: +8 net stars All other repositories, week to Oct 28: +15 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Nov 4: +228 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Nov 4: +54 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Nov 4: +26 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Nov 4: +16 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Nov 4: +10 net stars All other repositories, week to Nov 4: +27 net stars openobserve/openobserve, week to Nov 11: +216 net stars SigNoz/signoz, week to Nov 11: +66 net stars jaegertracing/jaeger, week to Nov 11: +26 net stars quickwit-oss/quickwit, week to Nov 11: +22 net stars grafana/tempo, week to Nov 11: +16 net stars All other repositories, week to Nov 11: +30 net stars

Compare growth

8 of 11 repositories: Created more than 2 years ago, with a push in the last 7 days and a GitHub release in the last 30 days. Select a column name to change the order.

# Repository Stars Gained, 30 days Pace
1 SigNoz/signoz

SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for your team and their AI agents. Get logs, metrics, and traces in one tool with features like APM, distributed tracing, log management, infra monitoring, etc. Combined with SigNoz MCP and a native AI teammate (in SigNoz Cloud) it helps you build more resilient apps.

33K +270 0.8×
2 apache/skywalking

APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

25K +39 –
3 jaegertracing/jaeger

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K +124 1.1×
4 openobserve/openobserve

Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, RUM (web, android, ios), Session replay, pipelines, SLO and LLM observability. A sophisticated, simple and highly performant alternative to Datadog, Splunk, and Elasticsearch with 140x lower storage costs and single binary deployment.

23K +694 1.1×
5 pinpoint-apm/pinpoint

APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.

14K +13 –
6 quickwit-oss/quickwit

Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

12K +85 0.8×
7 grafana/tempo

Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend.

5.6K +50 –
8 deepflowio/deepflow

eBPF Observability - Distributed Tracing and Profiling

4.3K +31 –

Faster than the 30 days before

Net stars of the last 30 days are 2 or more times those of the 30 days before.

No repository with this Tag meets this rule now.

Slower than the 30 days before

Net stars of the last 30 days are 50% or less of those of the 30 days before.

No repository with this Tag meets this rule now.

New in the last 90 days

Created on GitHub in the last 90 days.

No repository with this Tag meets this rule now.

Older than 2 years, still releasing

Created more than 2 years ago, with a push in the last 7 days and a GitHub release in the last 30 days.

  1. SigNoz/signoz 33K · release 8 days ago
  2. apache/skywalking 25K · release 6 days ago
  3. jaegertracing/jaeger 23K · release 7 days ago
  4. openobserve/openobserve 23K · release 8 days ago
  5. pinpoint-apm/pinpoint 14K · release 3 days ago
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Last release more than 180 days ago

The newest GitHub release is more than 180 days old. A repository that never published a release is not in this list.

  1. openzipkin/zipkin 17K · release 7 months ago
  2. highlight/highlight 9.4K · release last year
  3. timescale/promscale 1.3K · release 3 years ago

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