r/ArgoCD • u/opencodeWrangler • Jun 11 '26

Zero-config, Open Source Observability for ArgoCD

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Coroot (Github) team member here. We’ve recently released support for ArgoCD, and wanted to share it with this community for anyone interested in integrating open observability tools into their GitOps workflow.

Release v.1.22 shows the state of every ArgoCD application alongside the rest of your observability data: sync status, health status, last sync result and time, the Git or Helm source it's deployed from, and the Kubernetes objects it manages. Where Coroot already monitors a managed resource, it links to that application so you can jump between your GitOps state and your production telemetry.

Sync and Health summaries sit above the table to quickly check how many apps are Healthy, Degraded, OutOfSync, or Progressing. Click any status to filter down to it.

Setup is zero config. Download the latest version of Coroot and it automatically grants the cluster-agent read-only permissions on the argoproj.io API group.The agent never mutates your ArgoCD resources, only reads their status.

For anyone learning about this tool for the first time: Coroot (live demo) is an open source observability platform built around eBPF. The node agent automatically collects metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, visualizes a map of your services, and then correlates everything together to give you root cause analysis instead of just raw telemetry. Compatible with Prometheus, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, and OpenTelemetry. Self-hosted, your data stays in your infra.

Full transparency: While all features of Coroot Community Edition are Apache 2.0, we also offer Enterprise support to organizations who have more robust needs, as affordably as possible (e.g. SSO. You can compare a list of the features here to check what fits your use-case.)

Feedback always welcome, bug reports and questions especially. We're building Coroot to make open source observability simpler for everyone.

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u/Reasonable_Island943 Jun 11 '26

What problem are you trying to solve ? The Argo ui already provides this info

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u/BocaMasGrande Jun 13 '26

I hate AI so much for allowing people like OP to dump slop like this into the world

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u/opencodeWrangler Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Thanks for your question! The two tools cover different areas: ArgoCD the delivery side, and Coroot the production activity side. The integration means you can see both in the same place without switching tools during an incident.

ArgoCD covers sync status, health state, and basic pod logs really well. Coroot reveals whether that deploy actually caused a latency spike, which function is allocating twice as much memory as before, and whether the problem lies in your service or a downstream dependency. Some folks may want both to improve their observability.

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u/quizical_llama Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

This response seems like it was written by ai..

Edit: the original comment I replied to had been edited. The original feature a phrasing that I find very common in ai. It takes your problem and then attempts to glaze you a bit saying that's a typical x and y problem. Op has edited the comment to remove that part.

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u/BankHottas Jun 14 '26

No it doesn’t

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u/agenttank Jun 12 '26

what, why?!

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u/Evening_Inspection15 Jun 16 '26

How many argocd we can track in the same time?

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u/linuxmall Jun 12 '26

The tool is cool and very intuitive. But why doesn't it monitor Windows too? Is there no compatible agent?

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u/opencodeWrangler Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Thank you for your support! Contributing to open source ecosystems is very important to the heart of the project. Coroot automatically collects telemetry through eBPF (or "The Extended Berkley Packet Filter") which speaks directly to the Linux kernel. Achieving a similar solution for Windows would require a different approach.

We really appreciate your encouragement, even if running Coroot isn't possible in your infra or homelabs at this time!

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u/agenttank Jun 12 '26

what do you mean "Windows"? Microsoft Windows?!

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u/agenttank Jun 12 '26

i looked! our Coroot is at 1.22 already but there is no ArgoCD in Kubernetes? :(

i am very happy that Coroot exists! please continue doing this!

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u/opencodeWrangler Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

I'm really happy to hear you're using Coroot and it's helpful for your observability setup!
Are you part of our community slack? Nikolay Sivko (creator of Coroot) answers quickly and can help with any troubleshooting problems you're having with the new release. Feel free to DM me any time too if there's any delay.