# google/gops

A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system

Repository: https://github.com/google/gops
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gops
Language: Go
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: diagnostics, heap-profile, cpu-profile, go, golang, go-tools
Last push: 2026-07-16T20:32:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 73/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 33, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3583, "days_push": 48, "days_rel": 237, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7017, forks 333 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:53.398563+00:00)

## What it is
gops is a command-line tool from Google that lists all Go processes running on a system and diagnoses them. Processes that embed the gops agent expose extra diagnostics such as stack traces, memory stats, CPU usage, and Go version.

## Use cases
- list all Go processes running on my machine
- get a stack trace of a running Go program
- check memory and CPU usage of a Go process
- find which Go version a binary was built with
- capture heap and CPU profiles from a live Go process
- diagnose a hung Go application in production

## When to choose
- you operate or debug Go applications on a system
- you want lightweight runtime diagnostics without a full APM setup
- you need quick stack, memory, or profile inspection of Go processes

## When to avoid
- you need to diagnose non-Go processes
- you require long-term metrics storage, dashboards, or alerting
- you cannot modify the target program to embed the agent and need deep diagnostics

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, developer-tools, cli
- domain: developer-tools, performance
- platform: windows, go, cli
- tags: go-processes, diagnostics, profiling, heap-profile, cpu-profile, stack-trace, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- google/gops (main) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:53.398563+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:40:41.990277+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/gops (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:53.398563+00:00, sha 832e098854a7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.