Jaeger Has a Free Distributed Tracing Platform — Debug Microservices Performance Issues

Jaeger is a CNCF graduated distributed tracing platform for monitoring microservice architectures. What You Get for Free Distributed tracing — follow requests across services Trace visualization — timeline view of all spans Service dependencies — automatic service map Root cause analysis — identify slow services/queries OpenTelemetry — native OTel support Multiple storage — Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Badger, ClickHouse Adaptive sampling — control trace volume intelligently Compare traces — side-by-side trace comparison Hotrod demo — example app for learning CNCF graduated — production-ready Quick Start # All-in-one (development) docker run -d -p 16686:16686 -p 4318:4318 \ jaegertracing/jaeger:latest # Access UI at http://localhost:16686 # Send traces via OpenTelemetry SDK to port 4318 Why Teams Choose It Debugging microservices without tracing is guessing: CNCF graduated — same trust as Kubernetes, Prometheus OpenTelemetry native — use standard OTel SDKs Free — no per-trace prici