Announcing Jaeger v2.0

2024-11-12

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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Jaeger Graduates to a Top-Level CNCF Project

2019-10-31

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.

• Graduation application  to CNCF Technical Oversight Committee
• CNCF blog: official announcement 
• DevOps.com: CNCF Advances Jaeger Distributed Tracing Project 
• TheNewStack: Jaeger Graduates CNCF, Sees a Future Without Native Jaeger Clients 

Announcing Jaeger v1.0

2017-12-06

Today we reached a milestone and released v1.0 of Jaeger backend. Details are in this blog post .

Jaeger Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation

2017-09-25

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.

News coverage:

• CNCF blog: CNCF Hosts Jaeger 
• Linux Foundation blog: Lyft and Uber on Stage Together at Open Source Summit in L.A. 
• Silicon Angle: Ride-hailing firms Lyft and Uber open-source microservices technology 
• The New Stack: CNCF Adds Oracle, Onboards the Envoy and Jaeger Projects 
• eWeek: Uber and Lyft Bring Open-Source Cloud Projects to CNCF 
• ZDNet: Lyft and Uber travel the same open-source road 

Introducing Jaeger

2017-04-14

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 using the Docker image  along with a sample application, HotROD , 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 .