itamarst/eliot
Eliot: the logging system that tells you *why* it happened observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
86/100
- Activity 81
- Release rhythm 83
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 4529
- days_rel: 118
- days_push: 118
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
1187 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Eliot is a Python structured logging library that records causal chains of actions, showing what happened and why. It supports distributed tracing, asyncio/Trio/Twisted, and scientific computing with NumPy and Dask.
Use cases
- debug why an error happened in my python app
- trace causality across distributed services
- structured logging for asyncio applications
- log actions in dask and numpy scientific workflows
- find performance bottlenecks with action-based logs
- correlate sentry errors with operation traces
When to choose
- you need causal, action-based logs rather than flat log lines
- you use asyncio, Trio, Twisted, or Dask and want built-in support
- you want structured JSON logs suitable for Elasticsearch/Logstash aggregation
When to avoid
- you only need simple human-readable log messages
- you want an all-in-one log aggregation and storage solution
- you're outside the Python ecosystem
Facets
library · maturity active
logging tracing monitoring developer-tools backend data-science microservices python cross-platform structured-logging causal-tracing asyncio twisted dask scientific-computing json-logging
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/itamarst/eliot · fetched 2026-08-28 · 589eaffd9c59
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/eliot/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 845cc4dde985
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| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| itamarst/eliot | main | 86 |
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