Top 7 Java Tracing Projects

zipkin

14 16,077 6.0 Java

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

Project mention: Is there a beginners guide to adding observability to your applications? | reddit.com/r/sre | 2023-03-06

There are the zipkin https://zipkin.io/ and jaeger https://www.jaegertracing.io/ packages/components you can use both have quickstarts if you consider that to be a beginner's guide.
Pinpoint

0 12,672 9.8 Java

APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com
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brave

1 2,254 5.7 Java

Java distributed tracing implementation compatible with Zipkin backend services.

Project mention: Library For Propagating HTTP Headers | reddit.com/r/Kotlin | 2023-03-28

Check https://github.com/openzipkin/brave, it works with Zipkin, but You should be able to use it with other solutions.
OpenTracing Toolbox

0 181 7.0 Java

Best-of-breed OpenTracing utilities, instrumentations and extensions
java-specialagent

0 180 0.0 Java

Automatic instrumentation for 3rd-party libraries in Java applications with OpenTracing.
jplusone

1 103 10.0 Java

Tool for automatic detection and asserting "N+1 SELECT problem" occurences in JPA based Spring Boot Java applications and finding origin of JPA issued SQL statements in general

Project mention: Is there a way to write tests to validate the Hibernate-generated queries? | reddit.com/r/java | 2022-10-19
hidden-gems

1 11 4.0 Java

Code sample for hidden gems (by ammbra)

Project mention: JBCNConf 2022: A great farewell | dev.to | 2022-07-23

Ana-Maria Mihalceanu made a great talk with live coding on how to do distributed tracing using jaeger and opentelemetry. She explained how open telemetry tracing works and different sampling approaches. All the code is available at GitHub: https://github.com/ammbra/hidden-gems. At this talk, I also discovered RedHat Free Sanbox
Sonar

www.sonarsource.com
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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). The latest post mention was on 2023-03-28.