distributed-metrics
Collect and expose distributed networking metrics to your prometheus instance (by BitpingApp)
Grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more. (by grafana)
| distributed-metrics | Grafana | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 463 | |
| 3 | 71,366 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 8.3 | 10.0 | |
| 8 months ago | 3 days ago | |
| Rust | TypeScript | |
| - | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
distributed-metrics
Posts with mentions or reviews of distributed-metrics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-30.
- Show HN: API for network testing from 20k+ real devices worldwide
- Distributed Metrics: In Progress global metrics collector that supports DNS, ICMP Ping and HLS metric collection: https://github.com/BitpingApp/distributed-metrics
What Protocols the Developer API Currently Supports and why they're useful:
Grafana
Posts with mentions or reviews of Grafana. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-10.
- Top Open-Source Data Engineering Tools- Unravelling the Best in 2026
Grafana + Loki
- Install and Use Grafana on Ubuntu: Complete Guide
Grafana GitHub
- Why Cloud Incident Response is Critical for DevOps and IT Teams
Tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- The Real Cost of Kubernetes (And How to Reduce It)
Monitor utilization through tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Next.js Is Infuriating
- Platform Engineering for the uninitiated
Smart instrumentation for Site Reliability Engineering is of utmost importance now, because with so many moving parts in a microservices based architecture it is otherwise near impossible to identify problems. Technologies like ELK and LGTM+ in combination with OpenTelemetry provide respite in that area.
- How I’d scale a side project to 1 million users (without melting my server)
Grafana clean dashboards + Prometheus = dev happiness
- Kubernetes Overview: Container Orchestration & Cloud-Native
The standard observability stack includes Prometheus for metrics collection, Grafana for visualization, and AlertManager for notifications. For logging, consider Fluent Bit or Fluentd with Elasticsearch or cloud logging services. Jaeger or Zipkin provide distributed tracing for microservices debugging.
- AI agent observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana LGTM
Once data flows through the collector, the Grafana LGTM stack lets you explore:
- Unlock the Power of Real‑Time HubSpot CRM Automation
Power Live Dashboards and Proactive Alerts: Feed continuously updated KPIs from RisingWave into your BI tools like Grafana or Superset. Create alerts for critical business events, such as a high-value deal becoming at-risk or a sudden drop in MQLs from a key channel.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing distributed-metrics and Grafana you can also consider the following projects:
bping - A command line utility to ping servers from anywhere in the world!
Thingsboard - Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.
zincobserve - 🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces). [Moved to: https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve]
Freeboard - A damn-sexy, open source real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups. A free open-source alternative to Geckoboard.
openobserve - Modern observability platform: 10x easier, 140x lower storage cost, petabyte scale. Open-source alternative to Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog for logs, metrics, traces, RUM, and more.
Heimdall - An Application dashboard and launcher