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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Debugging crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to help you figure out what is going on with your code such as logging, tracing, or assertions.” Below are the 9 crates in it among the 300 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, log leads Debugging with 3,895,505 real downloads a day (foundational and steady). 4 of the 9 have 1,000+ dependents; 1 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 0.0% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
9 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| logFoundational | 3,895,505 | 31,897 | 2mo | -2% | 1.4B | |
| tracing-coreEstablished | 2,617,281 | 386 | 10mo | +2% | 976M | |
| tracingFoundational | 2,611,879 | 46,220 | 10mo | +2% | 966M | |
| tracing-attributesPulled in | 2,272,684 | 48 | 11mo | +3% | 846M | |
| tracing-subscriberFoundational | 1,919,774 | 20,192 | 7mo | -1% | 69M | |
| tracing-logEstablished | 1,664,731 | 476 | 3.0y | -5% | 619M | |
| gimliEstablished | 1,195,625 | 206 | 4mo | -8% | 611M | |
| addr2linePulled in | 1,078,074 | 80 | 3mo | -12% | 556M | |
| env_loggerFoundational | 1,046,756 | 12,204 | 4mo | -8% | 601M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io