# pinpoint-apm/pinpoint

APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.

Repository: https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pinpoint
Homepage: https://pinpoint-apm.gitbook.io/
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: apm, monitoring, performance, agent, distributed-tracing, tracing
Last push: 2026-08-26T09:31:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 60, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4335, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 105, "gap_med": 142, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 13861, forks 3754 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:04.969119+00:00)

## What it is
Pinpoint is an open-source Application Performance Management (APM) tool for large-scale distributed systems, inspired by Google's Dapper paper. It traces transactions across distributed applications to visualize system topology and provide code-level visibility with minimal performance overhead (~3%).

## Use cases
- monitor application performance in real time
- visualize the topology of a distributed system
- trace transactions across microservices to find bottlenecks
- instrument Java applications without changing code
- set up alerts on application metrics
- analyze URI statistics and error rates

## When to choose
- you run a large-scale distributed Java-based system and need APM
- you want distributed tracing with code-level visibility and low overhead
- you prefer a self-hosted APM with a visual server map
- you need agent-based instrumentation without code changes

## When to avoid
- your stack is primarily non-JVM languages without agent support
- you want a fully managed SaaS observability solution
- you need a lightweight single-service profiler rather than distributed tracing

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, tracing, alerting, analytics
- domain: monitoring, microservices, backend
- platform: jvm, self-hosted
- tags: apm, distributed-tracing, application-performance-management, servermap, java-agent, observability, opentelemetry, devops, docker, kubernetes, web-server

## Member repositories
- pinpoint-apm/pinpoint (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:04.969119+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 2026-08-29T17:12:59.346955+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:04.969119+00:00, sha b49b9c9b5bcf)
  - homepage: https://pinpoint-apm.gitbook.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:07:05.491767+00:00, sha 8f9ef6e348e0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.