Jaeger

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An open source distributed tracing platform used to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot complex, microservices based applications.

Founded 2000San Francisco, California, United States101-500 EmployeesPremise, Windows, Mac

Key Features

Dashboard and MISDistributed WorkflowsFlexible StorageOpen Tickets and split tenderScalable ApplicationSecurityTraceability
Free

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Jaeger — Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Open-source distributed tracing system for monitoring microservices
  • Supports multiple storage backends including Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
  • Integrates with various programming languages and frameworks
  • Provides a web-based UI for visualizing traces and dependencies
  • Active community support and extensive documentation available

Cons

  • Jaeger UI may not display spans when using OpenSearch as storage backend
  • Integration with Go applications may result in traces showing only one span
  • Jaeger UI can return 400 BadRequest errors in certain Kubernetes deployments
  • Limited native support for logging; primarily focused on tracing
  • Potential issues with distributed tracing across Node.js and Java services