sofastack/sofa-tracer
SOFATracer is a component for the distributed system call trace. And through a unified traceId logging the logs of various network calls in the invoking link. These logs can be used for quick discovery of faults, service governance, etc. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
62/100
- Activity 86
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
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: 3033
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 88
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1127 stars · 384 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
SOFATracer is a Java distributed tracing component based on the OpenTracing specification, part of the SOFAStack ecosystem. It records network calls across an invocation link with a unified traceId via asynchronous disk logging, and can report trace data to Zipkin for visualization.
Use cases
- trace requests across microservices with a unified traceId
- instrument Spring MVC, RPC, HttpClient, and DataSource calls for tracing
- report distributed trace spans to Zipkin for visualization
- print traceId and spanId in application logs via SLF4J MDC
- write async call summary and statistics logs to disk
- quickly locate faults in a distributed call chain
When to choose
- you run a Java/Spring microservices architecture and need OpenTracing-based distributed tracing
- you want high-performance asynchronous trace logging to local disk with log rolling and cleanup
- you are already on the SOFAStack ecosystem (SOFABoot, SOFARPC) and want integrated tracing
- you want to visualize traces in Zipkin
When to avoid
- your stack is not on the JVM
- you need OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation or a vendor-neutral tracing API going forward
- you need a full tracing backend/UI out of the box (SOFATracer relies on Zipkin for visualization)
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
tracing logging monitoring middleware microservices monitoring developer-tools backend jvm opentracing distributed-tracing zipkin traceid sofa-stack disruptor slf4j-mdc spring
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/sofastack/sofa-tracer · fetched 2026-08-28 · 97d85c1d0871
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sofastack/sofa-tracer | main | 62 |
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