Coroot Open-Source APM

Coroot is an open-source observability platform that transforms metrics and traces into actionable insights, focusing on automated service-level monitoring and root cause analysis. Developed by Coroot Inc. and with over 6,400 stars as of 2026, Coroot aims to make APM (Application Performance Monitoring) accessible without the complexity of traditional observability stacks. Coroot automatically builds a service map of your entire infrastructure, identifies performance bottlenecks, and pinpoints root causes of issues using eBPF-based tracing. Key features include: automatic service discovery (building a real-time service dependency map by analyzing network traffic and inter-service communication without code changes or instrumentation), eBPF-based tracing (using eBPF to capture distributed traces, request rates, error rates, and latency metrics directly from the Linux kernel with near-zero overhead), application-level insights (tracking per-service request rates, error rates, latency percentiles, and saturation metrics), root cause analysis (automatically correlating metrics across services to identify the root cause of performance degradation, including slow database queries, resource saturation, network issues, and upstream failures), SLO monitoring (defining and tracking Service Level Objectives with error budget burn rate alerts), distributed tracing (end-to-end request tracing across microservices without manual instrumentation), container and Kubernetes awareness (understanding pod, deployment, and namespace topology), Prometheus and OpenTelemetry integration (complementing existing observability data with Coroot's analytics), built-in anomaly detection, one-click deployment (installing via Helm chart or Docker Compose in minutes), and low operational overhead (no agents to deploy, no code to instrument, and no manual dashboard configuration).