google/perfetto

Production-grade client-side tracing, profiling, and analysis for complex software systems.

Developer toolsC++

1.0 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

Open-source tracing toolkit used to capture and analyze performance traces across apps, the Android OS, Chromium and Linux, including profiling and an SQL engine for extracting metrics from trace files.

Useful for

Profile a C/C++ application's custom trace points to find performance bottlenecks.
Analyze an Android trace in the browser UI to investigate jank or slow startup.
Query multi-GB trace files with SQL to compute custom performance metrics.

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

3 stars so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 6,519
Stars in a day: 4
Forks: 872
Issues and pull requests: 7,250
Watchers: 77
Language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v58.2 · August 24, 2026
Created: December 10, 2019
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #11, +7 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #11, +9 stars

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