tracing-appender
v0.2.5 GrowingProvides utilities for file appenders and making non-blocking writers.
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 87d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Massive adoption (17.3K crates depend on it)
- ✓Team maintained (2 owners)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
Security
Deep Insights
8.2M downloads in the last 30 days (273.8K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
17.3K crates depend on tracing-appender — it's part of the Rust ecosystem's core infrastructure. Removing it from your dependency tree would be extremely difficult.
The primary maintainer publishes 53 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
Despite being 6+ years old, tracing-appender hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
At 30KB, tracing-appender is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include aws-sdk-s3, lambda_runtime, datadog-tracing, sp1-prover, rama-core. When high-quality crates choose tracing-appender, it's a strong quality signal.
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