kieker — security grade SAFE, quality 64/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 64/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

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About kieker

Kieker Observability Framework The internal behavior of large-scale software systems cannot be determined on the basis of static (e.g., source code) analysis alone. Kieker provides complementary dynamic analysis capabilities, i.e., tracing, monitoring and analyzing a software system’s runtime behavior — enabling application performance monitoring and architecture discovery. Detailed information about Kieker is provided at http://kieker-monitoring.net/ and its documentation site https://kieker-monitoring.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Citation If you use this software, please cite Shinhyung Yang, David Georg Reichelt, Reiner Jung, Marcel Hansson, and Wilhelm Hasselbring (2025) "The Kieker Observability Framework Version 2". In: Companion of the 16th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE '25), May 5-9, 2025, Toronto, ON, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1145/3680256.3721972 Wilhelm Hasselbring and André van Hoorn (2020) "Kieker: A monitoring framework for software engineering research". Software Impacts, 5.

apmdistributed-tracingdynamic-analysisframeworkjavamonitoringobservabilitytracing

Quick Facts

Stars114
Forks47
LanguageJava
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score64.214171178641/100
Open Issues762
Last Updated2026-08-19
Created2015-06-25
Platformsjava
Est. Tokens~17k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is kieker?

kieker is Kieker is an observability framework, that consists of an monitoring and tracing agent, and compatible analysis tools. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 114 GitHub stars.

What programming language is kieker written in?

kieker is primarily written in Java. It covers topics such as apm, distributed-tracing, dynamic-analysis.

How do I install or use kieker?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the kieker GitHub repository at github.com/kieker-monitoring/kieker. The project has 114 stars and 47 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does kieker use?

kieker is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to kieker?

The top alternatives to kieker on Agent Skills Hub include opsrobot, agent-skills, vespper. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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