News | Jaeger

Jaeger has had a successful 9 year history as the leading open source distributed tracing platform strongly aligned with industry standardization efforts such as OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. Jaeger is one of the first graduated projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). After over 60 releases, Jaeger is celebrating a major milestone with the release of Jaeger v2. This is a new architecture that utilizes OpenTelemetry Collector framework as the base and extends it to implement Jaeger’s unique features. It brings significant improvements and changes, making Jaeger more flexible, extensible, and better aligned with the OpenTelemetry project.
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After two years of hard work and contributions from the community, Jaeger has graduated to be the 7th top-level project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, lining up alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS, containerd, and Fluentd.
Today we reached a milestone and released v1.0 of Jaeger backend. Details are in this blog post.
At the Open Source Summit NA in Los Angeles, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that it had accepted Jaeger as its 12th hosted project. Jaeger joins the respected company of other major modern foundational projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, gRPC, and OpenTracing.
Uber is pleased to announce the open source release of Jaeger, a distributed tracing system, used to monitor, profile, and troubleshoot microservices.
Jaeger is written in Go, with OpenTracing compatible client libraries in Go, Java, Node, and Python. It allows service owners to instrument their services to get insights into what their architecture is doing.
Jaeger is available now on Github as a public beta. Try it out by running the complete backend along with a sample application, to generate interesting traces.
We hope that other organizations find Jaeger to be a useful tool, and we welcome contributions. Keep up to date by subscribing to our mailing list.