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Top 13 Open Source APM Tools [2025 Guide]

Choosing the right APM tool is critical. How do you know which is the right one for you? Here are the top 13 open-source application performance monitoring(APM) tools that can solve your monitoring needs. Open-source APM tools have added benefits over their SaaS counterparts. They are more transparent, as you can verify their source code, and you can use them without going through the pains of obtaining approvals usually required for using a third-party vendor tool.

Top 5 Open Source Log Management Tools (and How to Choose the Right One)

Managing logs at scale is no longer just about storing text—it’s about gaining insights fast, keeping systems healthy, and troubleshooting in real time. With cloud-native architectures becoming the norm, the pressure is on for modern teams to adopt log management tools that are fast, scalable, and easy to use. But with so many options, how do you choose the right one?

The One Where We Show You Copilot Editor

Copilot Editor is like an AI-powered Rosetta Stone for telemetry. It helps Cribl users take raw, messy telemetry data and turn it into standardized, analytics-ready formats. The most important piece? It puts YOU in control. Our human-in-the-loop design means that users have full control over and visibility into what’s happening with their critical data, preventing AI-induced mistakes. Watch this fun demo with the AI product team to show Copilot Editor's true value to the average Cribl user!

MCP = Observability + Code, a Real-life Example

Our bot is hitting an error. We can see it in the distributed trace. Here, see what happened when we noticed it: Austin fired up Claude Code (hooked up to Honeycomb with its MCP tool) and got it to find the error, fix it, deploy, and check that the fix worked. It got a little overconfident at first, but the ending is happy. IRL this took 22 minutes; the video speeds up the AI agent interactions and cuts out waiting. This video includes Austin Parker, Jessica Kerr, and Ken Rimple.

Top Features of Splunk Observability Cloud for Engineers

In this video we’ll walk you through a demonstration of Splunk Observability Cloud’s key capabilities. You’ll see how you can monitor Kubernetes cluster health in Infrastructure Monitoring, and alert on your services’ health using AutoDetect Detectors and Alerts. We’ll then take a look at traces and metrics in APM, and use Related Content to find correlated log entries of error traces. Then we’ll use AlwaysOn Profiling to troubleshoot long duration traces for our service.

What's Inside InfluxDB 3.1

InfluxDB 3.1 is now available for both Core and Enterprise editions, bringing significant improvements that make managing high-volume, high-velocity time series data even easier, faster, and more secure. InfluxDB 3 Core is the free, open source edition of InfluxDB 3—a high-speed, recent-data engine licensed under MIT and Apache 2. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is the commercial version of Core, adding support for longer-term historical queries, high availability, enhanced security, and more.

Easy Method for Monitoring MinIO Performance Using Telegraf

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server built for cloud-native applications. It’s open-source, lightweight, and incredibly fast which makes it a solution for developers who need to store and serve unstructured data like images, logs, or backups. Whether you’re building a self-hosted alternative to Amazon S3 or running MinIO as part of a local development pipeline, it fits into modern containerized environments.