Open source
Jaeger
The CNCF-graduated distributed tracing system.
- signals
- Traces
- Metrics
- Logs
- Profiles
- otlp ingest
- native endpoint
- storage
- Cassandra, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Badger, ClickHouse
- website
- jaegertracing.io ↗
Jaeger was born at Uber and is one of the original distributed tracing platforms. Version 2 is rebuilt on top of the OpenTelemetry Collector, so it speaks OTLP natively and can be configured with the same pipelines you already use for the Collector.
Best for
Teams that want self-hosted tracing with no vendor dependency.
Strengths
- +Purpose-built trace search and waterfall UI
- +Collector-based architecture in v2
- +Pluggable storage backends
Consider
- −Traces only — pair with a metrics and logs store
- −You operate and scale the storage yourself
Also handles these signals