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Jaeger

Open-source distributed tracing platform for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices

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Technical Profile

Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
mature
Languages: Go
Architecture: distributed-tracing, opentelemetry, span-based

When to Use

  • +Microservices tracing
  • +OpenTelemetry adoption
  • +Self-hosted tracing

When Not to Use

  • -All-in-one observability
  • -Simple monolith

Strengths

  • CNCF graduated
  • OpenTelemetry native
  • Scalable
  • Open-source
  • 18k+ stars

Weaknesses

  • No logs/metrics
  • Operational overhead
  • UI limitations

Operations

Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, managed

Quick Facts

Category
Observability
License
open source
Pricing
free (free tier)
Community
large
Docs Quality
good
Trend
stable
Vendor Lock-in
low
Data Portability
easy

Compliance

GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA

Best For

smallmediumlargeenterprise

Use Cases

  • Distributed tracing
  • Root cause analysis
  • Performance optimization
  • Dependency mapping

Alternatives to Jaeger

Honeycomb

Observability platform built for debugging complex systems with high-cardinality data

commercialstable

OpenTelemetry

Vendor-neutral observability framework for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data

open-sourcestable
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