Tracing
Jaeger
open source / community (CNCF)
The CNCF reference implementation for distributed tracing; Jaeger v2 is built directly on the OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Category
- Tracing
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- CNCF graduated; the canonical OSS tracer
The catch
Tracing-only — no metrics/logs/alerting — and you bring and operate the storage backend (Cassandra/Elasticsearch/ClickHouse); a component, not a full product.
Monitors
Traces
Protocols
OTLP
Capabilities
Distributed tracing
Built for
SRE / DevOps