Go Tracing

Open-source Go projects categorized as Tracing

Top 23 Go Tracing Projects

  1. jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    Project mention: 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery | dev.to | 2025-06-25
  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. gf

    A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.

    Project mention: gmap in GoFrame: A Deep Dive into High-Performance Concurrent Maps | dev.to | 2025-01-05

    Performance Benchmarks

  4. coroot

    Coroot is an open-source APM & Observability tool, a DataDog and NewRelic alternative. Metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting, supercharged with predefined dashboards and inspections.

    Project mention: CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-15

    A child comment mentioned k8s but I also have been chomping at the bit to try out the eBPF hooks in https://github.com/pixie-io/pixie (or even https://github.com/coroot/coroot or https://github.com/parca-dev/parca ) all of which are Apache 2 licensed

    The demo for https://github.com/draios/sysdig was also just amazing, but I don't have any idea what the storage requirements would be for leaving it running

  5. opentelemetry-go

    OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

    Project mention: OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-16

    Funny timing—I tried optimizing the Otel Go SDK a few weeks ago (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/issues/67...).

    I suspect you could make the tracing SDK 2x faster with some cleverness. The main tricks are:

    - Use a faster time.Now(). Go does a fair bit of work to convert to the Go epoch.

    - Use atomics instead of a mutex. I sent a PR, but the reviewer caught correctness issues. Atomics are subtle and tricky.

    - Directly marshal protos instead of reflection with a hand-rolled library or with https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/easyproto.

    The gold standard is how TiDB implemented tracing (https://www.pingcap.com/blog/how-we-trace-a-kv-database-with...). Since Go purposefully (and reasonably) doesn't currently provide a comparable abstraction for thread-local storage, we can't implement similar tricks like special-casing when a trace is modified on a single thread.

  6. uptrace

    Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs

    Project mention: CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry Step by Step Guide | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-15

    be cognizant of their licenses (AGPLv3), it matters in some shops

    https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/v1.7.6/LICENSE

    https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve/blob/v0.14.7/LICE...

  7. datadog-agent

    Main repository for Datadog Agent

    Project mention: New Relic vs Datadog: Complete Platform Comparison | dev.to | 2024-12-18

    Official Datadog Documentation

  8. ebpf_exporter

    Prometheus exporter for custom eBPF metrics

  9. Stream

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  10. gigapipe

    qryn is a polyglot, high-performance observability framework for ClickHouse. Ingest, store and analyze logs, metrics and telemetry traces from any agent supporting Loki, Prometheus, OTLP, Tempo, Elastic, InfluxDB and many more formats and query transparently using Grafana or any other compatible client.

    Project mention: Quickwit Joins Datadog | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-10

    I'm not the person you asked -- and I also want to be transparent that I only PoC-ed it and due to external circumstances didn't get it all the way out to production -- but I really like how https://github.com/metrico/qryn (AGPLv3) thinks about the world. It is, like SigNoz, unified (logs, metrics, traces) but it actually implements several of the common endpoint schemes allowing it to pretend to be "your favorite tool" which plausibly helps any integration story <https://github.com/metrico/qryn#%EF%B8%8F-query> and <https://github.com/metrico/qryn#-vendors-compatibility>

    I was going to take advantage of Clickhouse using S3 as warm-to-cold storage since my mental model is that most logs, metrics, and traces are written and not read https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/integrations/s3#configuring-s...

    I believe one could do that with SigNoz, too, so I don't mean to imply that trickery was qryn specific, just that I didn't want to get into the "constantly resizing io3 PVC" game

  11. gotraceui

    Go execution trace frontend

  12. tracetest

    🔭 Tracetest - Build integration and end-to-end tests in minutes, instead of days, using OpenTelemetry and trace-based testing.

    Project mention: Tracetest Tip: Testing Span Order with Assertions | dev.to | 2024-10-14

    The example sources used in this article and setup instructions are available in the Tracetest GitHub repository.

  13. Go-Clean-Architecture-REST-API

    Golang Clean Architecture REST API example

  14. awesome-monitoring

    INFRASTRUCTURE、OPERATION SYSTEM and APPLICATION monitoring tools.

  15. sqlhooks

    Attach hooks to any database/sql driver

  16. eBPF-Guide

    eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) Guide. Learn all about the eBPF Tools and Libraries for Security, Monitoring , and Networking.

  17. schedviz

    A tool for gathering and visualizing kernel scheduling traces on Linux machines

  18. orchestrion

    Automatic compile-time instrumentation of Go code

    Project mention: Prep: Golang Comptime | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-27

    This is just integrated codegen into the build tool, right? Datadog has a similar project here https://github.com/DataDog/orchestrion that does the same thing.

    I think this kind of code gen is very wonky, and hard to debug unless there is some official API support for it. Using a sufficiently advanced build tool to handle this in a separate build step would help as well. But that usually causes problems with IDE support.

  19. xgo

    All-in-one go testing library (by xhd2015)

  20. nhi

    :tv: Automatically capture all potentially useful information about each executed command (as well as its output) and get powerful querying mechanism

  21. Go-EventSourcing-CQRS

    Go Event Sourcing CQRS Microservice

  22. autometrics-go

    Easily add metrics to your system -- and actually understand them using automatically customized Prometheus queries

  23. Go-GRPC-Auth-Microservice

    Go GRPC Auth Microservice

  24. Go-NATS-Streaming-gRPC-PostgreSQL

    Go Nats Streaming gRPC PostgerSQL emails microservice

  25. Go-CQRS-EventSourcing-Microservice

    Go-CQRS-EventSourcing-Microservice

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Tracing projects in Go? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 jaeger 21,568
2 gf 12,511
3 coroot 6,607
4 opentelemetry-go 5,801
5 uptrace 3,757
6 datadog-agent 3,159
7 ebpf_exporter 2,366
8 gigapipe 1,463
9 gotraceui 1,268
10 tracetest 1,179
11 Go-Clean-Architecture-REST-API 889
12 awesome-monitoring 701
13 sqlhooks 656
14 eBPF-Guide 591
15 schedviz 529
16 orchestrion 420
17 xgo 411
18 nhi 319
19 Go-EventSourcing-CQRS 188
20 autometrics-go 143
21 Go-GRPC-Auth-Microservice 143
22 Go-NATS-Streaming-gRPC-PostgreSQL 117
23 Go-CQRS-EventSourcing-Microservice 96

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