kubeshop/tracetest
🔭 Tracetest - Build integration and end-to-end tests in minutes, instead of days, using OpenTelemetry and trace-based testing. observed · 2026-10-20
Health v2 · maintenance only
30/100
- Activity 16
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: prerelease_only no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1722
- days_rel: 714
- days_push: 504
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1329 stars · 97 forks observed · 2026-10-20
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Tracetest is an open-source trace-based testing tool that builds integration and end-to-end tests on top of OpenTelemetry distributed traces. It lets you assert against both API responses and trace span data across microservices, with a web UI, YAML test specs, a CLI, and CI/CD integrations.
Use cases
- write end-to-end tests for microservices using OpenTelemetry traces
- assert on trace span timing like database queries under 100ms
- test side-effects in distributed systems such as message queues and async calls
- run trace-based tests in CI pipelines
- verify quality of OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- run trace-based tests as synthetic monitors in production
- integrate trace assertions with existing Cypress, Playwright, k6, or Postman tests
When to choose
- you have a microservices or event-driven architecture already instrumented with OpenTelemetry
- traditional input/output tests miss race conditions, bottlenecks, or inter-service failures
- you want to assert on internal behavior of a transaction, not just the final response
- you want to build E2E tests quickly via a visual UI or YAML and run them in CI
When to avoid
- your application is not instrumented with OpenTelemetry and you cannot add tracing
- you only need simple unit or isolated component tests without distributed tracing
- you need a fully open-source production-grade self-hosted deployment - the open-source core is hobby-grade and managed/enterprise features are commercial
Facets
application · maturity active
testing e2e-testing tracing monitoring ci-cd testing microservices monitoring developer-tools cli self-hosted cloud cross-platform trace-based-testing opentelemetry distributed-tracing integration-testing synthetic-monitoring observability devops docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/kubeshop/tracetest · fetched 2026-10-20 · 0f12b5f7e05c
- homepage: https://docs.tracetest.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6926cb2bbcfc
- site_page: https://docs.tracetest.io/getting-started/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · 48ccf9ed5ad5
- site_page: https://docs.tracetest.io/install/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · a08bb9aeecae
- site_page: https://docs.tracetest.io/tools-and-integrations/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · deaa9add7781
- site_page: https://docs.tracetest.io/core/getting-started/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · 57cdffa29863
- site_page: https://docs.tracetest.io/concepts/what-is-trace-based-testing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8a7502c00a33
- site_page: https://docs.tracetest.io/getting-started/install-agent · fetched 2026-08-29 · 59ace0c63b6d
- site_page: https://tracetest.io/on-prem-installation · fetched 2026-08-29 · e07007fff2ae
- site_page: https://tracetest.io/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · ed870942aee1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kubeshop/tracetest | main | 30 |
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