jaegertracing

    jaegertracing/jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    observability
    cncf
    distributed-tracing
    hacktoberfest
    jaeger
    opentelemetry
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    23.4K stars
    3.2K forks
    23.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 29, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 23 days ago, with 433 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 7% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a distributed tracing platform to monitor and troubleshoot microservices-based architectures.
    • Enables end-to-end observability with scalable trace collection, storage, and visualization integrated with OpenTelemetry.
    • Use for diagnosing latency issues and performance bottlenecks in complex cloud-native applications.
    • Use for monitoring service dependencies and understanding request flows in distributed systems.
    • Use for analyzing production incidents by tracing requests across multiple services to identify root causes.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    💥💥💥 Jaeger v2 is out! Read the blog post and try it out.

    Get Jaeger running in seconds with Docker:

    For production deployments and more options, see the Getting Started Guide.

    Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform created by Uber Technologies and donated to Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

    See Jaeger documentation for getting started, operational details, and other information.

    Jaeger is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as the 7th top-level project, graduated in October 2019. See the CNCF Jaeger incubation announcement and Jaeger graduation announcement.

    Excerpt from the jaegertracing/jaeger README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Sep 4: +2

    +275 stars over 85 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +2 on Sep 4.

    Forks

    3.2K+150

    Open issues

    579+25

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