Download Jaeger

Jaeger components can be downloaded in two ways:

As executable binaries
As container images

Try Jaeger v2 🎉

November 12, 2024: Jaeger v2 is a new major release based on the OpenTelemetry Collector framework. Read the blog post for more details.

Binaries

Jaeger binaries are available for macOS, Linux, and Windows. The table below lists the available binaries:

Latest version	Assets
2.1.0	macOS Linux Windows Source (.zip) Source (.tar.gz)
1.64.0	macOS Linux Windows Source (.zip) Source (.tar.gz)

You can find the binaries for previous versions on the GitHub releases page .

Container images

The following container images are available for the Jaeger project via the jaegertracing organization on Docker Hub and Quay.io :

Image	Major	Description	Since version
jaeger	v2	The only binary you need to run Jaeger v2. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger:2.1.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger:2.1.0 --help`	2.0
all-in-one	v1	Designed for quick local testing. It launches the Jaeger UI, collector, query, and agent, with an in-memory storage component. `$ docker run jaegertracing/all-in-one:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/all-in-one:1.64.0 --help`	0.8
example-hotrod	v1	Sample application “HotROD ” that demonstrates features of distributed tracing (blog post ). `$ docker run jaegertracing/example-hotrod:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/example-hotrod:1.64.0 --help`	1.6
jaeger-collector	v1	Receives spans from agents or directly from clients and saves them in persistent storage. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-collector:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-collector:1.64.0 --help`	0.8
jaeger-query	v1	Serves Jaeger UI and an API that retrieves traces from storage. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-query:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-query:1.64.0 --help`	0.8
jaeger-ingester	v1	An alternative to collector; reads spans from Kafka topic and saves them to storage. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-ingester:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-ingester:1.64.0 --help`	1.7
jaeger-remote-storage	v1	A service that implements the Remote Storage API on top of another supported backend. Can be used to share a single-node storage backend, like `memory`, across multiple Jaeger processes. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-remote-storage:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-remote-storage:1.64.0 --help`	1.37
spark-dependencies	v1	An Apache Spark job that collects Jaeger spans from storage, analyzes links between services, and stores them for later presentation in the Jaeger UI `$ docker run jaegertracing/spark-dependencies:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/spark-dependencies:1.64.0 --help`	1.3
jaeger-operator	v1	A Kubernetes Operator for packaging, deploying, and managing Jaeger installation. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-operator:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-operator:1.64.0 --help`	1.6
jaeger-cassandra-schema	v1	A utility script used to initialize Cassandra keyspace and schema. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-cassandra-schema:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-cassandra-schema:1.64.0 --help`	0.8
jaeger-es-index-cleaner	v1	A utility script used to purge old indices from Elasticsearch, since ES does not support data TTL. `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-es-index-cleaner:1.64.0 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-es-index-cleaner:1.64.0 --help`	1.3
jaeger-agent	v1	Deprecated 💀💤❌. Latest available version is 1.62. Receives spans from Jaeger clients and forwards to collector. Designed to run as a sidecar or a host agent. jaeger-agent is deprecated and no longer recommended for use, see https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/issues/4739 . `$ docker run jaegertracing/jaeger-agent:1.62 --help` `$ podman run quay.io/jaegertracing/jaeger-agent:1.62 --help`	0.8

Debug and Snapshot Images

The images listed above are the primary release versions. Most components have additional images published:

${component}-debug includes Delve debugger
${component}-snapshot published from the tip of the main branch for every commit, allowing testing of unreleased versions
${component}-debug-snapshot snapshot with debugger

Artifact Checksums

Along with the binaries published via GitHub Releases we provide the checksum files, *.sha256sum.txt, for each of the target architecture archive. Below is an example of validating darwin-amd64 binaries for release v1.39.0 :

download jaeger-1.39.0-darwin-amd64.sha256sum.txt
download jaeger-1.39.0-darwin-amd64.tar.gz

# expand the archive
$ tar -xz jaeger-1.39.0-darwin-amd64.tar.gz

# find checksum for hotrod example
$ grep hotrod jaeger-1.39.0-darwin-amd64.sha256sum.txt
5088bcd396351edebf9280ee4d5d0f89f4839ecd64a8711e91a22dea6ddb719c *jaeger-1.39.0-darwin-amd64/example-hotrod

# regenerate the checksum from the binary and compare
$ shasum -b -a 256 jaeger-1.39.0-darwin-amd64/example-hotrod
5088bcd396351edebf9280ee4d5d0f89f4839ecd64a8711e91a22dea6ddb719c *jaeger-1.39.0-darwin-amd64/example-hotrod

Signed Artifacts

We also publish cryptographic signatures for each of the artifact archives. The signatures can be verified using the public key below.

Import the key

$ gpg --import <<EOF
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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=B/tl
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
EOF

gpg: key B42D1DB0F079690F: public key "Jaeger Tracing Artifact Signing <jaeger-tracing@googlegroups.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

Verify signature

From the release page (TODO: provide link and fix versions):

Download jaeger-1.39.4-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
Download jaeger-1.39.4-darwin-amd64.tar.gz.asc

Use gpg --verify {signature-file} file, e.g.:

$ gpg --verify jaeger-1.39.4-darwin-amd64.tar.gz.asc jaeger-1.39.4-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
gpg: Signature made Wed Nov  9 13:34:17 2022 EST
gpg:                using EDDSA key BD0B026014C725261C947887B42D1DB0F079690F
gpg: Good signature from "Jaeger Tracing Artifact Signing <jaeger-tracing@googlegroups.com>" [ultimate]