sourcegraph/appdash
Application tracing system for Go, based on Google's Dapper. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4302
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1770
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1704 stars · 134 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Appdash is an application tracing system for Go, based on Google's Dapper and Twitter's Zipkin. It lets you instrument applications to record spans and events for requests and operations, then visualize timings and metadata in a tree/timeline web UI.
Use cases
- trace end-to-end request handling in a Go application
- debug slow HTTP requests and SQL queries
- visualize a tree and timeline of downstream service calls
- instrument custom operations with application-specific metadata
- collect distributed tracing data in a Dapper/Zipkin style
When to choose
- you have a Go application and want lightweight, self-hosted distributed tracing
- you want built-in HTTP and SQL tracing recorders with a web UI
- you prefer a Dapper-style span/event model you can extend with custom schemas
When to avoid
- you need an actively developed tracer with broad ecosystem support (consider OpenTelemetry)
- you need tracing in non-Go languages
- you need vendor-backed APM with alerting and long-term metric storage
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
tracing monitoring http-server middleware developer-tools monitoring backend performance go cross-platform distributed-tracing dapper zipkin go observability apm
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/sourcegraph/appdash · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1aff831ee08a
- homepage: https://sourcegraph.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6246d788642a
- site_page: https://sourcegraph.com/docs/api · fetched 2026-08-29 · 623aae1c35c5
- site_page: https://sourcegraph.com/docs/cli · fetched 2026-08-29 · ab041a8eda6f
- site_page: https://sourcegraph.com/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 926125f12098
- site_page: https://sourcegraph.com/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 44df09d4b3a8
- site_page: https://sourcegraph.com/changelog · fetched 2026-08-29 · 447aea873969
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sourcegraph/appdash | main | 10 |
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