upto | Tool for monitoring distributed task timing

upto is a Go library. upto has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Upto is a project based around the observation that in production systems with many components, it can be very difficult to track and visualize a coordinated many-step process, especially if the orchestration is distributed or difficult to monitor. When you get asked why a server startup, build, deployment, database downtime or other process is slow (or slower than it was), it can be difficult to track all the moving pieces. Upto has the intention of solving this by providing a service that you can run and report events to, either by UDP or HTTP, to provide a Gantt chart visualization and REST API. As a secondary goal, it would be nice to support both push and pull mechanics, allowing upto to gather information more easily over a variety of network setups. The name is based on the question, "what is it up to?" and it is inspired by work on two projects, one involving many tools, and the other being a build system that required timings for sub-job level items. Upto is built to be a micro-service, solving a single problem in a manner that's decoupled and orthogonal to the use, or other solutions. You should be able to integrate it and benefit from it easily, without requiring huge changes or forcing many other choices on you.