High-performance open BitTorrent tracker, consisting of sub-implementations for different protocols:

Features at a glance:

• Multithreaded design for handling large amounts of traffic
• All data is stored in-memory (no database needed)
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• Supports forbidding/allowing info hashes
• Prometheus metrics
• Automated CI testing of full file transfers

Known users:

• explodie.org public tracker (udp://explodie.org:6969), typically serving ~100,000 requests per second
• tracker.webtorrent.dev (wss://tracker.webtorrent.dev)

More benchmark details are available here.

Please refer to the README pages for the respective implementations listed in the table above.

There are also some auxiliary applications and libraries.

Load test applications for aquatic and other trackers, useful for profiling:

• aquatic_udp_load_test - BitTorrent over UDP
• aquatic_http_load_test - BitTorrent over HTTP
• aquatic_ws_load_test - WebTorrent

Automated benchmarking of aquatic and other trackers: aquatic_bencher

Libraries for communication between clients and trackers:

• aquatic_udp_protocol - BitTorrent over UDP
• aquatic_http_protocol - BitTorrent over HTTP
• aquatic_ws_protocol - WebTorrent

• aquatic_peer_id - extract BitTorrent client information from peer identifiers

Copyright (c) Joakim Frostegård

Distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. Please refer to the LICENSE file in the repository root directory for details.

The tracker is called aquatic because it thrives under a torrent of bits ;-)