Jaeger 1.41: Distributed Tracing Enhancements

Introduction

Jaeger 1.41, released on September 15, 2024, advances distributed tracing with improved trace collection, enhanced storage backends, better performance, and expanded integration capabilities. This release makes Jaeger more powerful for understanding distributed system behavior.

Trace Collection

• Sampling improvements provide better control over trace sampling strategies.
• Span collection enhancements enable more comprehensive trace collection.
• Context propagation improvements enable better trace correlation across services.
• Performance optimizations reduce overhead of trace collection.

Storage Backends

1. Elasticsearch integration improvements provide better integration with Elasticsearch.
2. Cassandra enhancements enable better integration with Cassandra storage.
3. Badger improvements provide better local storage capabilities.
4. S3 support enables storage of traces in object storage.

Performance Improvements

• Query performance optimizations reduce latency for trace queries.
• Storage efficiency improvements reduce storage requirements.
• Indexing enhancements enable faster trace retrieval.
• Caching improvements provide better response times for frequently accessed traces.

Integration Capabilities

• OpenTelemetry integration improvements provide better integration with OpenTelemetry.
• Kubernetes enhancements enable better integration with Kubernetes.
• Grafana integration enables visualization of traces in Grafana.
• API improvements enable better programmatic access to trace data.

Getting Started

# Install Jaeger using the operator
kubectl create namespace observability
kubectl create -f https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-operator/releases/download/v1.41.0/jaeger-operator.yaml -n observability

Create a Jaeger instance:

apiVersion: jaegertracing.io/v1
kind: Jaeger
metadata:
  name: my-jaeger
spec:
  strategy: production
  storage:
    type: elasticsearch
    elasticsearch:
      nodeCount: 3
      redundancyPolicy: SingleRedundancy

Summary

Jaeger 1.41 continues to be a leading distributed tracing solution, providing teams with comprehensive trace analysis capabilities.