Open source, CNCF-graduated distributed tracing platform originally built by Uber for monitoring and troubleshooting request flows across microservices architectures.
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Key Features
- End-to-end distributed tracing with waterfall-style span timeline visualization
- Service dependency graphs showing relationships and interactions between services
- Adaptive sampling (probabilistic, constant, rate-limited, and remote)
- Native OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing support
- Pluggable storage backends (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, ClickHouse)
- Tag-based trace search and filtering
- Trace comparison for debugging regressions
- Cloud-native deployment with Docker and Kubernetes support
- Service Performance Monitoring (SPM)
Background
- Originally developed at Uber Technologies, donated to CNCF.
- Graduated CNCF project, alongside Kubernetes and Prometheus.
- 100% open source and self-hosted.
- Architecture: OpenTelemetry SDK → Jaeger Collector → Storage → Query Service → UI.
- Production deployment supports streaming strategy via Kafka for high-load environments.