tracewayapp/traceway

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OpenTelemetry-native observability. Open source. Self-hosted in 90 seconds.

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Traceway is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform. It combines logs, traces, metrics, session replay/RUM, exceptions, and AI tracing in one place. Point an OTLP exporter at it and you're in business. No Collector, no glue code, no per-language vendor SDK.

MIT licensed. No BSL. No "open core." Every feature is in the box. Self-host it for free, or run it on Traceway Cloud if you'd rather not babysit infra.

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What's in the box

• Logs: Structured, trace-linked, sub-second search. Native OTLP/HTTP ingest from any OTel SDK.
• Traces: End-to-end span waterfalls across every service. Click a log, jump to its span.
• Endpoints: Per-route latency percentiles (P50/P95/P99), throughput, and error rate, ranked by Apdex and a 5-factor impact score.
• Metrics: Host, runtime, and custom metrics. Any dimension, any chart, with custom widget groups.
• Exceptions: Stack traces are normalized, given a SHA-256 fingerprint, and grouped into ranked issues. Source-mapped (webpack, esbuild, Vite).
• Profiling (experimental): Flame graphs for CPU, heap, and goroutines with version-to-version diffing and a top-functions table. Ingests native Go pprof and OTLP profiles.
• Session Replay: Watch what the user did right before the error. Available for web (any JS framework) and Flutter.
• AI Observability: LLM cost, tokens, latency, and full conversations across providers (OpenRouter and any OTel-compatible AI gateway).

Plus: background-task (job) monitoring, configurable alerts (Slack / GitHub / email / webhook / Pushover / Telegram), multi-tenant orgs with role-based access, and a per-endpoint slow-threshold override.

AI-First

Your agent sets up Traceway, queries production telemetry, and finds the root cause:

npx skills add tracewayapp/traceway

One command installs two skills into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent that reads SKILL.md:

• /traceway-setup reads your repo and wires it up: OTel for backends, Traceway SDKs for web and mobile. Then it verifies data actually arrives.
• /traceway installs the traceway CLI and uses it to query exceptions, logs, endpoints, and metrics, from bug report to root cause.

The CLI is designed for agents first: JSON when piped, tables on a TTY, stable error identifiers and exit codes, --fields to trim responses. It's read-only apart from archiving exceptions, which needs an explicit --yes. Nothing hangs, nothing gets damaged.

The skills are plain Markdown in skills/, in the same MIT-licensed repo. No marketplace, no lock-in. Learn more →

Symbolication

app.min.js:1:63 tells you nothing. Traceway resolves minified production errors back to the original file, line, and function the moment they arrive. The same engine handles stripped and obfuscated mobile crashes: iOS and Swift against the build's dSYM, Android against its R8 mapping.txt, Dart and Flutter against their obfuscation map.

The symbolicator is pure Go and built to keep up with ingest. Every debug artifact (a source map, a dSYM, an R8 mapping) compiles once into a binary .tw file and is memory-mapped from disk. Opening a compiled map takes under a microsecond, p99 lookup stays under a millisecond on a cold cache, and no map is re-parsed after a restart. The corpus is a disk budget, not a RAM budget.

The same engine ships as a standalone OpenTelemetry Collector processor, drop-in compatible with Honeycomb's source_map_symbolicator: same component type, same attribute contract, same config keys. Use it in your own pipeline, with or without Traceway behind it.

Upload source maps from CI with npx traceway-sourcemaps --directory ./dist; dSYMs and R8 mappings post to the same endpoint. Benchmarks live in benchmarks/; run them on your fork. Learn more →

Why Traceway

	Enterprise (Datadog / New Relic)	DIY OSS stack (Prometheus + Loki + Tempo + ...)	Traceway
Pricing	Per-event, per-host, per-seat	Free + ops time	Self-host free, fixed cloud tiers
Setup	Vendor SDK per language	Glue 6 tools together	docker compose up -d
License	Proprietary	Mixed (some BSL / open-core)	MIT, no asterisks
OTel	Wrapped in vendor SDK	OTel Collector required	Native OTLP/HTTP ingest
Replay + traces + AI	3 separate products	Wire it yourself	One system, one trace ID

Quick Start

Self-host with Docker (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway
cd traceway && docker compose up -d
# ✓ dashboard at http://localhost

Point any OTel SDK at http://localhost/api/otel/v1/traces (or /metrics, /logs) and traces start flowing. See the self-hosting docs for production deployment, TLS, and storage configuration.

Prefer a single container with no external databases? The SQLite image is the smallest deployment. The DuckDB image keeps the same zero-dependency setup but adds a columnar telemetry store for far more dashboard headroom. Run either with docker compose -f docker-compose.sqlite.yml up -d or -f docker-compose.duckdb.yml.

Docker images are cryptographically signed with Cosign.

Embedded mode (inside your Go app)

Run Traceway inside your Go process. No Docker, no external databases, SQLite under the hood:

go get github.com/tracewayapp/traceway/backend

import tracewaybackend "github.com/tracewayapp/traceway/backend"

func main() {
    go tracewaybackend.Run(
        tracewaybackend.WithPort(8082),
        tracewaybackend.WithDefaultUser("admin@localhost.com", "admin"),
        tracewaybackend.WithDefaultProject("My App", "opentelemetry", "dev-token"),
    )

    // ... start your app, point its OTel exporter to http://localhost:8082/api/otel/v1/traces
}

Open http://localhost:8082, log in, and hit your app to see traces appear. Full walkthrough in the embedded mode guide, or check the working examples (OTel exporter or Go client SDK).

Supported Integrations

Traceway integrates with the tools you already use. Every integration ships traces, metrics, and logs over OTLP/HTTP. No proprietary SDK required.

View the full list in the documentation. Missing a framework? Open an issue to request it.

Backend

Gin	Chi	Fiber	FastHTTP	net/http	Go Generic	Node.js
NestJS	Hono	Symfony	Laravel	Django	Cloudflare	OpenTelemetry

Frontend

Session Replay is included with every frontend integration, and with Flutter too.

Next.js

React

Vue

Svelte

jQuery

JavaScript

Mobile

Flutter

Android

iOS

React Native

AI

OpenRouter

Screenshots

Logs: trace-linked search	Span waterfall
Metrics: application dashboard	Exceptions: fingerprinted & ranked

Tech Stack

Component	Technology
Backend	Go 1.25, Gin
Frontend	SvelteKit 2, Svelte 5, Tailwind CSS v4
Telemetry DB	ClickHouse (standalone), SQLite or DuckDB (embedded)
Relational DB	PostgreSQL (standalone) or SQLite (embedded)
Ingest	OTLP/HTTP (Protobuf + JSON) for traces, metrics, logs

Project Structure

Directory	Description
backend/	Go/Gin API server: OTLP ingest, REST API, notifications, migrations
frontend/	SvelteKit 2 dashboard SPA
cli/	Agent-first traceway command line for querying exceptions, logs, endpoints, and metrics
skills/	Agent skills (/traceway-setup, /traceway) for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and any SKILL.md-compatible agent
docs/	Documentation site (Nextra)
examples/	Working examples: embedded mode (OTel, Go client) and OTel-instrumented apps (Express, NestJS, Next.js, Hono)
website/	Landing page

Build Tags

Storage is selected on two axes: the telemetry store and the transactional (relational) store.

Tag	Purpose
(none)	SQLite storage on both axes: embedded mode, zero dependencies. This is the default.
telemetry_duckdb	DuckDB telemetry store: embedded mode with a columnar engine. Requires CGO_ENABLED=1.
transactional_pg telemetry_ch	ClickHouse (telemetry) + PostgreSQL (config) for standalone server mode.
localdist	Embeds frontend from static/dist/ instead of static/frontend/. Used by traceway-cloud to inject billing UI.

# Embedded mode (SQLite, default)
cd backend && go build ./cmd/traceway

# Embedded mode with DuckDB telemetry
cd backend && CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -tags telemetry_duckdb ./cmd/traceway

# Standalone server (ClickHouse + PostgreSQL)
cd backend && go build -tags "transactional_pg telemetry_ch" ./cmd/traceway

Running Tests

# SQLite tests (default, no tags needed)
cd backend && go test -v -count=1 ./app/repositories/...

# ClickHouse + PostgreSQL tests (requires Docker)
./scripts/test-backend-pgch.sh

# DuckDB telemetry tests
cd backend && CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -tags telemetry_duckdb -v -count=1 ./app/repositories/...

# OTEL trace converter tests (no DB required)
cd backend && go test -v -count=1 ./app/controllers/otelcontrollers/

# Update OTEL golden files after intentional converter changes
cd backend && go test -v -count=1 ./app/controllers/otelcontrollers/ -args -update

Documentation

Full documentation at docs.tracewayapp.com:

• Client SDKs: OpenTelemetry, Go, Node.js, Python, and more
• Self-Hosting: Docker Compose and production deployment
• Concepts: How tracing, exception fingerprinting, metrics, and alerts work
• Embedded Mode: Run Traceway inside your Go app

Community

Traceway is built in the open, and the Discord community is where it happens. Come say hi, whether you're kicking the tires, running it in production, or just curious. We use it to:

• 🗣️ Talk through ideas: feature requests, integration asks, roadmap input
• 🛟 Help each other out: setup, OTel wiring, deployment questions
• 🚀 Show & tell: share what you're building and how you're using Traceway
• 🐛 Catch bugs early: report issues and get fast feedback from maintainers
• 👀 Get the inside scoop: sneak peeks at what's shipping next

Contribute

Contributions are welcome. Pull requests get reviewed and merged. If you're not sure where to start or want to discuss an idea first, open an issue or drop by the community Discord and we'll talk it through.

Links

• Website
• Documentation
• Traceway Cloud: managed hosting (same MIT code, run by us)
• Community Discord: chat with the team and other users