Qihoo360/phptrace

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1663 stars · 382 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

phptrace is a low-overhead tracing and troubleshooting tool for PHP, consisting of a PHP extension and a CLI binary. It traces function calls, request information, and runtime status of live PHP processes, useful for diagnosing blocking and heavy-load issues in production.

Use cases

• trace function calls of a running PHP process
• debug blocking or slow PHP scripts in production
• inspect runtime status of php-fpm workers
• filter traces by function, class, or URL
• find performance bottlenecks in PHP applications

When to choose

• you need to debug a live PHP process without restarting it
• you want low-overhead tracing safe for production environments
• you need to see which functions a PHP script is calling in real time

When to avoid

• you need distributed tracing across services - use its successor Molten or OpenTracing-based tools
• you are not working with PHP
• you need a maintained tool with recent updates - the last release was in 2018

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

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