pixie-io / pixie
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Why this job: says: observability; topics: observability, monitoring
What it does
Pixie is an open-source observability tool for Kubernetes applications. Use Pixie to view the high-level state of your cluster (service maps, cluster resources, application traffic) and also drill down into more detailed views (pod state, flame graphs, individual full-body application requests).
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 14 days ago
- Stars
- 6,557
- +7 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest tag
- release/cloud/v0.1.9
- Released 21 months ago
- Built with
- C++
- 53% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- Not stated
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 57% closed
- 301 still open
- Pull requests
- 1,302 merged
- 98 waiting
- Releases
- 104
- 4 in the last year
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- C++ 53%
- Go 22%
- TypeScript 10%
- Starlark 6%
Topics
- golang
- kubernetes
- ebpf
- vega
- monitoring
- gke
- eks
- aks
- minikube
- machine-learning
- distributed-systems
- px-run
Project record
- JobEvals and observability
- StatusListed
- Commits12,662
- Forks508
- Watching74
- Stars in 28 days+15
- CreatedFeb 27, 2020
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 8, 2026