---
id: kanaries-track
version: "0.0.5"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: dormant
---

# kanaries-track — kanaries_track: track to kanaries data infra

License: permissive · Maintenance: dormant · Downloads: 116.7K/mo

## What it is and what it does

kanaries-track is a lightweight client library that sends structured event data to Kanaries' hosted data infrastructure. You configure it with an authentication token, then call its track() method with any dictionary of data; the library handles HTTP delivery with automatic retry logic via the backoff dependency.

The package is minimal and dormant—the repository shows only 3 stars and the latest release was 2024-05-13. It is suitable for applications that already depend on Kanaries as their analytics backend and need a simple Python integration, but the lack of recent maintenance means you should verify that the Kanaries service endpoint is still active and compatible with your deployment before adopting it.

Use it for:

- Log user actions or application events to Kanaries for centralized analytics and monitoring.
- Send custom metrics or business events from Python applications to a Kanaries data warehouse.
- Integrate event tracking into data analysis or BI workflows that already use Kanaries as the backend.
- Instrument Python scripts or services to report telemetry to Kanaries with built-in retry resilience.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Sends event and metric data to Kanaries' data infrastructure for tracking and analysis via HTTP requests with automatic retry logic.

Yes, if you are already committed to Kanaries as your analytics backend and need a simple Python client. Install friction is low and the license is permissive. However, the package is dormant (latest release 2024-05-13), so verify that the Kanaries endpoint is still operational and that you are comfortable with no active maintenance before adopting it in production.

## Install

pip install kanaries-track
uv add kanaries-track
poetry add kanaries-track

## Installing kanaries-track

Before you install: Low installation friction with three lightweight runtime dependencies (backoff, dateutils, requests). Maintenance is dormant—last commit was 2024-05-13 with no updates since—so expect no active bug fixes or feature development.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), so you can use, modify, and distribute the package freely with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install kanaries-track

import kanaries_track
kanaries_track.config.auth_token = "your_project_key"
kanaries_track.track({"event": "user_action"})

Requires Python 3.6 or later; you must provide a valid auth token before calling track().

Verify before relying:

- Whether the Kanaries backend service is still operational and accepting connections.
- What happens to tracked events if the auth token is invalid or revoked.
- Rate limits or payload size constraints imposed by the Kanaries endpoint.
- Whether retry behavior (via backoff) is configurable or uses fixed defaults.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: dormant
- Downloads: 116.7K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

event tracking library, send metrics to kanaries, data collection client, track analytics events, http event logger, kanaries integration, telemetry sender, analytics-client, event-tracking

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