alibaba/loongcollector

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2190 stars · 447 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

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