jaegertracing/jaeger
Jaeger
Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform used for collecting, storing, and visualizing request flows across microservices. It identifies performance bottlenecks and errors by tracking requests as they move through multiple service boundaries. The system includes telemetry collectors, a multi-tenant backend, and a trace visualizer.
The platform provides a multi-tenant tracing infrastructure that isolates data and queries by tenant to support shared environments. It supports standardized telemetry ingestion via the OpenTelemetry Protocol over gRPC and HTTP. To manage storage costs and overhead, it employs adaptive trace sampling to dynamically adjust the volume of captured request data based on traffic patterns.
The system handles distributed trace storage through pluggable database backends and manages the data lifecycle via automated index rollover and cleanup. Its analysis capabilities include tag-based searches, transaction timeline visualization, service dependency graphs, and side-by-side trace execution comparison. Security is addressed through TLS communication encryption and trace data anonymization.
The project supports custom distribution building and cross-platform binary compilation to create tailored executables based on selected extensions and processors.
Features
- Distributed Tracing Backends - Provides specialized storage and analysis engines for capturing and visualizing request flows across microservices.
- Distributed Tracing - Implements a complete platform for collecting, storing, and analyzing telemetry data across distributed service architectures.
- Distributed Storage - Persists trace data to distributed database backends for scalable long-term storage and retrieval.
- Multi-Tenant Data Management - Provides a storage system that logically isolates trace data and queries by tenant to support shared environments.
- Multi-Tenant Infrastructure - Isolates trace data and queries for different teams or environments within a shared distributed tracing platform.
- Multi-Tenant Isolation Layers - Segregates trace records and queries by tenant using metadata headers to support shared environments.
- Multi-tenancy Isolation - Implements architectural isolation of trace data and queries via HTTP headers to support multi-tenant environments.
- Distributed Tracing and Execution Analysis - Analyzes request flows across service boundaries using timelines and graphs to locate performance bottlenecks.
- Distributed Tracing - Tracks requests across multiple services using unique identifiers to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Telemetry Collectors - Ships a telemetry collector that ingests and processes data using the OpenTelemetry Protocol via gRPC and HTTP.
- Performance Monitoring - Visualizes transaction flows and latency across service boundaries to identify system delays.
- Telemetry Ingestion - Implements connectors and protocols for streaming application telemetry into the observability backend.
- Data Lifecycle Management - Automates the rollover and deletion of old trace indices to ensure storage efficiency.
- Pluggable Storage Drivers - Provides a provider interface that allows different database engines to store and retrieve trace records.
- Trace Comparison - Enables side-by-side comparison of two different traces to identify performance regressions or behavioral changes.
- Tag-Based Search - Provides a search interface to locate specific transactions using metadata tags and regular expressions.
- Trace Sampling - Dynamically adjusts the volume of captured traces based on traffic patterns to balance visibility and storage costs.
- Adaptive Sampling - Dynamically adjusts the volume of captured request data based on traffic patterns to manage storage costs.
- Trace Visualization - Provides a web interface for rendering and navigating large-scale distributed traces through timelines and dependency graphs.
- Observability Backends - Distributed tracing platform for monitoring microservices.
- Monitoring and Alerting - Distributed tracing system.
- Monitoring & APM - Distributed tracing system for microservices.
- Observability and Monitoring - Distributed tracing platform for microservices.
- Performance Monitoring - Distributed tracing system.
- Tracing And Profiling - Platform for distributed tracing and monitoring.
- Microservice Reference Implementations - Distributed tracing system for microservice monitoring.
- Performance Analysis - Distributed tracing system for monitoring microservices.
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