I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir

In plain words

This is a BitTorrent tracker written in Elixir, designed to handle highly-parallel workloads. Built by a developer learning Elixir through practical projects, the tracker includes a Docker image for quick deployment. While DHT and PEX have reduced tracker reliance, the creator argues they remain useful for public torrenting and plans ongoing development with additional features. The project aims to advance BitTorrent tracker development beyond existing solutions like OpenTracker.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Elixir-powered BitTorrent Tracker. Contribute to Dahrkael/ExTracker development by creating an account on GitHub.

👷‍♂️This project is a Work In Progress. While not ready for full industrial usage it does work. There is a testing instance running at extracker.dahrkael.net:6969 with all current features enabled ( Live statistics ). Currently there are no official releases built (soon™️). You can however make your own and deploy it where needed: For this method you can directly run the available docker image : docker run ghcr.io/dahrkael/extracker:latest or use it as part of docker-compose. Theres an example compose file available. Since modifying the runtime.exs file to tune the configuration inside the container is not easy you can also configure it using Environment Variables , see the example compose…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hello everyone! I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker. So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one!…

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