# tracewayapp/traceway

The only tool you need to know what is happening and how to fix it.

Repository: https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/traceway
Homepage: https://tracewayapp.com
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: telemetry, logs, metrics, observability-platform, open-telemetry, otel, session-replay, traces, alerting, exception-tracker, issue-tracking, monitoring
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:12:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 18
- inputs: {"age_days": 258, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 126}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1431, forks 56 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:42.101349+00:00)

## What it is
Traceway is an OpenTelemetry-native, self-hostable observability platform that combines logs, traces, metrics, session replay, exceptions, AI tracing, and on-call paging in one tool. It ingests telemetry via OTLP/HTTP from any OpenTelemetry SDK and is MIT-licensed with full feature parity between self-hosted and cloud offerings.

## Use cases
- self-host an open-source APM for my services
- collect and search logs and traces via OpenTelemetry
- track exceptions with stack traces and session replay
- monitor endpoint latency percentiles and error rates
- trace LLM costs and token usage for AI features
- page on-call engineers when production breaks
- let AI coding agents query production telemetry

## When to choose
- you want a fully open-source (MIT) alternative to Datadog or Sentry
- you already instrument with OpenTelemetry and want OTLP-native ingest without vendor SDKs
- you need logs, traces, metrics, replay, and alerting unified in one self-hosted dashboard
- you want AI agents to autonomously investigate production issues

## When to avoid
- you need a long-proven platform with a large enterprise support ecosystem
- you cannot run Docker/ClickHouse/Postgres infrastructure yourself
- you only need a single narrow tool like pure log aggregation

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, analytics
- domain: monitoring, backend
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: observability, open-telemetry, apm, session-replay, exception-tracking, on-call, ai-tracing, clickhouse, otlp, devops, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- tracewayapp/traceway (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:42.101349+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 2026-08-30T04:37:09.079236+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:42.101349+00:00, sha 95b264571f62)
  - homepage: https://tracewayapp.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:34.681779+00:00, sha 767d455534f5)
  - site_page: https://docs.tracewayapp.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:34.691362+00:00, sha 6a5efa9d6489)
  - site_page: https://tracewayapp.com/contact (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:34.694154+00:00, sha dc7e82b514ab)
  - site_page: https://tracewayapp.com/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:34.697183+00:00, sha 9037280576e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.