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yvasiyarov/gorelic

⭐ 384 Go added to this list on 2025-04-19 repository created 2013-04-08

GoRelic is a monitoring agent designed for the Go runtime environment, which collects and reports a wide range of performance metrics to the New Relic platform. Although now deprecated in favor of the official New Relic Go agent, GoRelic was originally developed to provide detailed insights into the Go runtime's behavior, including scheduler activity, garbage collection, and memory allocation. It supports Go versions 1.1 and higher and integrates with various Go web frameworks such as Beego, Martini, Revel, Kami, and Gin through middleware, facilitating easy incorporation into existing applications. The agent collects numerous metrics categorized into general runtime statistics, garbage collector performance, memory allocator usage, process-level data, HTTP request metrics, and tracing information. General metrics include counts of goroutines and cgo calls. Garbage collector metrics track the number of GC calls, pause times, and detailed timing statistics. Memory allocator metrics provide granular data on memory usage by different components such as heap, stack, and internal structures, as well as allocation and free operations. Process metrics monitor system threads, file descriptors, and virtual memory usage. HTTP metrics cover throughput and response times, with percentile breakdowns, enabling performance monitoring of web applications. The tracing feature allows developers to measure execution times of specific methods or code blocks, aiding in performance optimization. Configuration options allow customization of data collection intervals, verbosity, and which metrics to collect, balancing detail with performance impact. GoRelic requires a New Relic license key for operation and offers verbose logging for debugging. Despite its deprecation, it remains a comprehensive example of runtime monitoring for Go applications, demonstrating how to leverage Go's runtime and debug packages to extract valuable performance data and integrate it with a popular monitoring platform.

https://github.com/yvasiyarov/gorelic

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