tracing VS log

Compare tracing vs log and see what are their differences.

log

Logging implementation for Rust (by rust-lang)
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tracing log
52 28
4,856 2,020
4.5% 2.5%
8.1 8.6
3 days ago 3 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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tracing

Posts with mentions or reviews of tracing. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-31.

log

Posts with mentions or reviews of log. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tracing and log you can also consider the following projects:

log4rs - A highly configurable logging framework for Rust

slog - Structured, contextual, extensible, composable logging for Rust

env_logger - A logging implementation for `log` which is configured via an environment variable.

opentelemetry-rust - The Rust OpenTelemetry implementation

rust-simple_logger - A rust logger that prints all messages with a readable output format.

vector - A high-performance observability data pipeline.

flamegraph - Easy flamegraphs for Rust projects and everything else, without Perl or pipes <3

warp - A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.

async-anyhow-logger - An easy crate for catching anyhow errors from an asynchronous function, and passing them to your logger