alibaba/loongcollector
Fast and Lightweight Observability Data Collector observed · 2026-10-08
Health v2 · maintenance only
89/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 72
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 91
- age_days: 1807
- days_rel: 30
- days_push: 13
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
2202 stars · 451 forks observed · 2026-10-08
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
LoongCollector (formerly iLogtail) is a high-performance, lightweight observability data collection agent from Alibaba for cloud-native environments. It collects logs, Prometheus metrics, and eBPF-based network/security telemetry and ships them to backends like Alibaba Cloud SLS or OpenTelemetry-compatible systems.
Use cases
- collect logs from kubernetes clusters
- ship container logs to alibaba cloud sls
- collect prometheus metrics from nodes
- ebpf network observability monitoring
- lightweight agent for observability data collection
- replace filebeat or fluentd for log shipping
- collect security and network telemetry with ebpf
When to choose
- you need very high-throughput log collection with low resource usage
- you run kubernetes or cloud-native workloads and need a unified agent for logs, metrics, and eBPF telemetry
- you send data to Alibaba Cloud SLS or OpenTelemetry backends
When to avoid
- you need a fully vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry Collector-native pipeline with OTel ecosystem plugins
- you require first-class Windows desktop support or non-Linux edge deployments
- you want a mature large community beyond Alibaba's ecosystem
Facets
application · maturity active
monitoring logging tracing etl streaming monitoring cloud-computing self-hosted cross-platform observability-agent log-collection ebpf prometheus metrics-collection opentelemetry aliyun-sls apm devops containers linux docker kubernetes
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/alibaba/loongcollector · fetched 2026-10-08 · db3998277402
- homepage: https://cnops.com.cn/projects/p0ddwzs2lutt63pe6e390hs4 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 52be7da1118c
- site_page: https://cnops.com.cn/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · ca332275291d
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| alibaba/loongcollector | main | 89 |
For agents
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