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Chrome DevTools for your backend

Subtrace is Chrome DevTools for your backend. It tracks the API requests coming in and going out of your servers so that you can solve problems in production quickly. Later, when you're solving a problem in production, you can filter for the requests you care about using simple SQL queries and dig into the details (e.g. headers, payload, latency). With Subtrace, you'll never have to console.log() a HTTP request again.

Features

• Works out-of-the-box
• Supports all languages (Python, Node, Go, and everything else)
• No instrumentation code changes required
• Less than 100µs performance overhead
• Built on Clickhouse
• Open source

Code Contributions

While Subtrace is open source, we're not currently accepting pull requests. This is because we're a startup with a very small team and we don't have the resources or documentation necessary to maintain a good open source community in a way that still allows us to move quickly. This will probably change in the future.

With that said, we welcome all feature requests and bug reports, so feel free to open an issue.