Jaeger is an open-source, end-to-end distributed tracing system originally developed by Uber. It helps monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices architectures by tracking requests as they flow through multiple services.
Problems it solves:
Performance bottlenecks: Identifies slow services in request chains
Error tracking: Pinpoints where failures occur in distributed systems
Dependency analysis: Maps service interactions and dependencies
Root cause analysis: Helps debug issues across multiple services
Service optimization: Provides insights for performance improvements
Jaeger follows the OpenTracing standard and is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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