Jaeger

A distributed tracing platform built around open telemetry standards.

Overview

Jaeger receives, stores, and visualizes distributed traces so teams can follow requests across service boundaries and investigate latency.

Why it is interesting

Why pay attention

It is a focused open-source tracing backend for teams standardizing instrumentation around OpenTelemetry.

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Open source & pricing

Jaeger is free and self-hostable; storage and operations infrastructure carry costs.

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