kamon-io/Kamon
Distributed Tracing, Metrics and Context Propagation for applications running on the JVM observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
67/100
- Activity 63
- Release rhythm 54
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
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: 47
- age_days: 4870
- days_rel: 226
- days_push: 226
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
1426 stars · 330 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Kamon Telemetry is a set of open-source libraries for instrumenting JVM applications (Java, Scala, Kotlin) to collect metrics, distributed traces, and propagate context across threads and services. It offers automatic instrumentation for popular frameworks like Akka, Play, and Spring, and can report data to Kamon APM, Prometheus, Jaeger, Datadog, and other backends.
Use cases
- instrument a Scala or Java service to collect metrics and traces
- trace requests across microservices on the JVM
- add distributed tracing to Akka or Play applications
- export JVM application metrics to Prometheus or Datadog
- propagate trace context across threads and services
- monitor database and HTTP client performance in JVM apps
- add custom business metrics to a backend service
When to choose
- you run JVM services (Scala, Java, Kotlin) and need metrics plus distributed tracing with minimal code changes
- you use Akka, Play, Cats Effect, or Spring and want automatic instrumentation
- you want vendor-neutral telemetry that can report to Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin, Datadog, or Kamon APM
When to avoid
- your stack is not on the JVM (e.g., Python, Node.js, Go)
- you want a full OpenTelemetry SDK implementation rather than Kamon's own APIs
- you need a hosted APM UI without any self-managed backend and prefer not to use Kamon APM
Facets
library · maturity active
tracing monitoring alerting monitoring developer-tools microservices backend jvm cross-platform observability distributed-tracing context-propagation apm opentelemetry instrumentation akka spring play-framework devops
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/kamon-io/Kamon · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4b502396e47f
- homepage: https://kamon.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · e65109692c3f
- site_page: https://kamon.io/docs/latest/guides · fetched 2026-08-29 · b0b65b03d49d
- site_page: https://kamon.io/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 601de586ad6c
- site_page: https://kamon.io/apm/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3decb13ab9cb
- site_page: https://kamon.io/apm · fetched 2026-08-29 · 06c801dcd9ff
- site_page: https://kamon.io/telemetry · fetched 2026-08-29 · cb612626c0ad
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kamon-io/Kamon | main | 67 |
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