About Jaeger
Jaeger is an open source, distributed tracing platform. It helps developers and site-reliability engineers monitor and troubleshoot workflows across complex distributed systems.
Key Features
To diagnose performance in microservice-heavy apps, Jaeger traces requests through services and surfaces where delays occur:
Distributed tracing across microservices
Traces requests as they move through multiple services, revealing latency, errors, and the path a single user or request takes.
Root-cause analysis and bottleneck detection
Correlates spans to identify the service or hop responsible for delays and failures.
Service dependency mapping
Visualizes inter-service calls and critical paths to understand how changes ripple through your stack.
Native ClickHouse storage backend
Jaeger v2.18.0 adds ClickHouse as a storage backend for scalable trace storage and fast querying.
Summary
Best for SREs, backend engineers, and platform teams building and maintaining microservices.
