A minimal production-ready golang HTTP server with go-chi/chi.
✅ Graceful shutdown
✅ Tracing with OpenTelemetry
✅ Trust proxy resolution
✅ Structured logging with log/slog
✅ Rich request logging middleware including bytes written/read, request id, trace id, context propagation, and more
✅ Panic recovery with rich logging including request id and trace id
Go 1.20+ required
git clone https://github.com/dillonstreator/template-go-chi
cd template-go-chi
go run .See all example configuration via environment variables in .env-example
Open Telemetry is disabled by default but can be enabled by setting the OTEL_ENABLED environment to true.
By default, the trace exporter is set to standard output. This can be overridden by setting OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT.
Start the jaegertracing/all-in-one container with docker-compose up and set OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4318 to collect logs in jaeger. Docker compose will expose jaeger at http://localhost:16686