Jaeger - a Distributed Tracing System

Jaeger, inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies. It can be used for monitoring microservice-based architectures:

• Distributed context propagation
• Distributed transaction monitoring
• Root cause analysis
• Service dependency analysis
• Performance / latency optimization

See also:

• Jaeger documentation for getting started, operational details, and other information.
• Blog post Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber.
• Tutorial / walkthrough Take OpenTracing for a HotROD ride.

Related Repositories

Instrumentation Libraries

• Go client
• Java client
• Python client
• Node.js client

Contributions

Jaeger contributions organization, including:

• Kubernetes templates
• OpenShift templates

Components

• UI
• Data model

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

Questions, Discussions, Bug Reports

Reach project contributors via these channels:

• jaeger-tracing mail group
• Gitter chat room
• Github issues

License

The MIT License.

Note: we are planning to switch to Apache License v2.0