Jaeger

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (Apache-2.0)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2017

Status

Active

Website

jaegertracing.io

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Tracing and APM checklist

4 of 10 confirmed in Jaeger's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Tracing and APM.

• + Distributed tracing Yes
• + OTLP traces ingest Yes
• + Service map Yes
• x Auto-instrumentation No
• ? Database query analysis Not confirmed
• ? Error capture Not confirmed
• x Latency and error alerts No
• ? Trace to log correlation Not confirmed
• + Sampling controls Yes
• ? Code-level detail Not confirmed

Recommends OpenTelemetry for instrumentation; SPM shows RED metrics but no alerting.

Checked against: github.com, jaegertracing.io, jaegertracing.io (2)

Alternatives to Jaeger

Other tracing and apm tools. See all 22.

• Apache SkyWalking APM for distributed systems from the Apache Software Foundation: agents and service mesh probes collect traces, metrics and logs and draw service topology maps.
• AppSignal APM for Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, Python, PHP, Go and front-end JavaScript that combines performance, errors, logs, host metrics, uptime checks and cron check-ins.
• Atatus Full-stack observability SaaS with APM, real user monitoring, logs, infrastructure and synthetic monitoring, priced without per-user fees.
• Blackfire Profiler and performance monitoring for PHP and Python: on-demand profiles, continuous profiling in production, and performance assertions that can run in CI.
• DeadBro APM for Ruby on Rails apps installed as a gem: request traces, slow SQL and N+1 query detection, and error tracking, priced by requests.
• Grafana Tempo Distributed tracing backend that stores traces cheaply in object storage and accepts OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Zipkin data.
• Honeycomb Observability built for high-cardinality event data: query traces and events by any field to work out why production behaves the way it does.
• IBM Instana Enterprise APM and observability that discovers services automatically and traces every request across them.
• Inspector Code-level monitoring for PHP apps (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Drupal) that shows transactions, database queries and errors as they happen.
• Lumigo Troubleshooting for serverless and container apps with automatic distributed tracing that captures request and response payloads across AWS Lambda and other services.
• Odigos Uses eBPF to add OpenTelemetry tracing to applications on Kubernetes without code changes and sends the data to any backend.
• OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) Zero-code eBPF instrumentation that produces traces and RED metrics for HTTP, gRPC, database and messaging calls from Linux processes. Started as Grafana Beyla and was donated to OpenTelemetry.