RootTrace
RootTrace / Integrations / Go APM
APM & OpenTelemetry
Go APM that speaks Go.
Build the reference wrapper from apm/go in this repository and wrap your handlers. There is no published go-get module.
What RootTrace watches
Every reading is checked continuously; bad readings become grouped issues with the evidence attached. RootTrace also remembers whether it has seen the same incident before.
- Endpoint percentilesp50/p95/p99 latency and throughput per endpoint.
- Grouped errorsErrors grouped with counts across requests.
- Traces & spansTransaction and span timing, including external calls.
- Runtime metricsGoroutines, GC, and memory from the Go runtime.
Warn and fail thresholds, prefilled
Sensible defaults out of the box, overridable per host with environment variables. No threshold spreadsheet required on day one.
- Latency and error-rate anomalies open issues automatically
Setup
# No Go module is published. Build the source under apm/go in this repository.
Outbound HTTPS only: the wrapper aggregates in memory and posts to the API; nothing listens on your hosts and nothing touches production.
The Go wrapper is a source-only reference implementation.
Questions, answered honestly
Does it support my router?
The API wraps standard net/http handlers, so anything built on them (chi, gorilla, gin adapters) instruments the same way.
Is this safe to run next to production?
The collector is read-only by architecture, not by policy: there is no write path, no remediation executor, and no privileged mode to switch on. It sends short-lived outbound HTTPS requests, opens no inbound ports, and redacts credential-like evidence before anything leaves the host.
Do I need a separate agent for this?
No. One RootTrace collector per host covers every integration on this site: databases, web servers, containers, endpoints, and the Linux host itself, all from one signed package or container. You point it at targets with environment variables; there is nothing else to deploy.
Related integrations
Free on 5 hosts. Live in minutes.
Create a workspace, install one collector, and watch issues explain themselves.