# opstrace/opstrace

The Open Source Observability Distribution

Repository: https://github.com/opstrace/opstrace
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/opstrace
Homepage: https://opstrace.com
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: observability, monitoring, metrics, logs, tracing, platform, open-source
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-01-11T20:22:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2106, "days_push": 1695, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1210, forks 50 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:59.970684+00:00)

## What it is
Opstrace is an open-source observability distribution that deploys a scalable metrics, logs, and tracing stack (built on Cortex and Loki) on Kubernetes with multi-tenancy and a management UI. It was acquired by GitLab in 2022 and development moved to GitLab's repositories, leaving the original GitHub project inactive.

## Use cases
- self-host a scalable Prometheus-compatible metrics and logs platform
- deploy multi-tenant observability stack on Kubernetes
- collect cloud provider metrics from AWS, GCP, and Azure
- set up scalable Alertmanager alerting
- ingest Datadog-compatible metrics into an open-source backend

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted, multi-tenant Cortex/Loki distribution and can maintain it yourself
- you need a Datadog-compatible ingestion API on your own infrastructure

## When to avoid
- you want actively maintained software - the GitHub repo is abandoned after the GitLab acquisition
- you need a turnkey SaaS observability solution
- you are not running Kubernetes

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, deployment, container-orchestration
- domain: monitoring, cloud-computing, self-hosted
- platform: cloud, self-hosted, go
- tags: observability-distribution, cortex, loki, multi-tenancy, metrics-collection, gitlab-acquired, devops, containers, kubernetes, docker, typescript

## Member repositories
- opstrace/opstrace (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.970684+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:18:32.168515+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/opstrace/opstrace (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.970684+00:00, sha a2d79d5b9fc9)
  - homepage: https://opstrace.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:26:28.676623+00:00, sha 6a6131b5e672)
  - site_page: https://opstrace.com/blog/product-documentation-with-nextjs (fetched 2026-08-29T12:26:28.685787+00:00, sha e9749d99dc4f)
  - site_page: https://opstrace.com/blog/cloud-provider-integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T12:26:28.688415+00:00, sha 20a259666ac2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.