census-instrumentation/opencensus-go
A stats collection and distributed tracing framework observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
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: n/a
- age_days: 3493
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1134
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2040 stars · 325 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
OpenCensus Go is a Go toolkit for collecting application performance data, providing tags, stats/metrics collection, and distributed tracing with exporters to Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin, Stackdriver, and others. It has been archived and merged into OpenTelemetry, which is its official successor.
Use cases
- add distributed tracing to a Go application
- collect application metrics in Go
- export Go service metrics to Prometheus
- trace gRPC and HTTP requests in Go
- instrument a Go microservice for observability
- send traces to Jaeger or Zipkin from Go
When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Go codebase already built on OpenCensus
- you need the OpenCensus API specifically for compatibility with existing integrations
When to avoid
- starting a new Go project needing tracing or metrics - use OpenTelemetry instead
- you want an actively maintained observability library
- you need new features or long-term support
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
tracing monitoring middleware monitoring developer-tools microservices go cross-platform opencensus distributed-tracing metrics prometheus jaeger zipkin opentelemetry-predecessor archived
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-go · fetched 2026-08-28 · 42f811bc7dc0
- homepage: http://opencensus.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · aa2875056622
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart/erlang/tracing · fetched 2026-08-29 · b0f9001b212a
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b2c2c4c0881
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart/dotnet · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7a8f805d9850
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart/dotnet/tracing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 50a21dc9b235
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart/erlang · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b111e136196
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart/erlang/metrics · fetched 2026-08-29 · ba95fa875bbb
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart/cpp · fetched 2026-08-29 · c7dcfe14e306
- site_page: https://opencensus.io/quickstart/cpp/metrics · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4b1f341d308e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| census-instrumentation/opencensus-go | main | 10 |
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