Jaeger

Jaeger, inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies. It is used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems, including:

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

Features

• OpenTracing compatible data model and instrumentation libraries
• in Go, Java, Node, Python, and C++
• Uses consistent upfront sampling with individual per service/endpoint probabilities
• Multiple storage backends: Cassandra, Elasticsearch, memory.
• Adaptive sampling (coming soon)
• Post-collection data processing pipeline (coming soon)
• offers a multitude of tags for the various components used in this chart