Jaeger

Jaeger is an open source standard for distributed tracing in distributed systems, originally developed by Uber and now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Concepts

• Spans
• Traces
• Reporting APIs:
  • Thrift over UDP
  • Protobuf via gRPC
  • Thrift over HTTP
  • p.r.comp.lang.markup.json (Private) over HTTP
  • Zipkin
• Retrieval APIs:
  • Protobuf via gRPC
  • HTTP JSON
• Storage backends:
  • Cassandra
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kafka
  • In-memory

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Backlinks

• Ports (public)