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.

Most of the code here is used in production at Uber, but the open source version is currently in Public Beta.

Clients:

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

Contributions:

• Jaeger contributions organization

Components:

• UI
• Data model

See CONTRIBUTING.

Open an issue in this or other Jaeger repositories, or join the jaeger-tracing forum.

The MIT License.