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    DataDog/dd-trace-go

    Datadog Go Library including APM tracing, profiling, and security monitoring.

    monitoring
    observability
    apm
    appsec
    datadog
    distributed-tracing
    opentelemetry
    Go
    NOASSERTION
    863 stars
    558 forks
    863 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 400 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides Go libraries for Datadog APM tracing, continuous profiling, and application security monitoring.
    • Offers seamless integration with Go applications and automatic instrumentation for popular Go libraries.
    • Use for tracing distributed requests and identifying bottlenecks across microservices in Go applications.
    • Use for continuously profiling Go applications to detect CPU, memory, and synchronization issues.
    • Use for enabling in-app security monitoring to detect and protect against application-level attacks in Go services.

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    From the README

    This repository contains Go packages for the client-side components of the Datadog product suite for Application Performance Monitoring, Continuous Profiling and Application Security Monitoring of Go applications.

    The package github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-go/v2/ddtrace/tracer allows you to trace any piece of your Go code, and commonly used Go libraries can be automatically traced thanks to our out-of-the-box integrations which can be found in the package github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-go/v2/contrib.

    The package github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-go/v2/profiler allows you to periodically collect and send Go profiles to the Datadog API.

    This module contains many packages, but most users should probably install the two packages below:

    Additionally there are many contrib packages, published as nested modules, that can be installed to automatically instrument and trace commonly used Go libraries such as net/http, gorilla/mux or database/sql/v2

    If you installed more packages than you intended, you can use go mod tidy to remove any unused packages.

    Excerpt from the DataDog/dd-trace-go README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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