High-performance open BitTorrent tracker, consisting of sub-implementations for different protocols:
| Name | Protocol | OS requirements |
|---|---|---|
| aquatic_udp | BitTorrent over UDP | Unix-like |
| aquatic_http | BitTorrent over HTTP, optionally over TLS | Linux 5.8 or later |
| aquatic_ws | WebTorrent, optionally over TLS | Linux 5.8 or later |
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 ;-)