Running Jaeger Locally: How to Get Started

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  • opentelemetry-collector

    OpenTelemetry Collector

    • You can then configure an Opentelemetry Client SDK installation or OpenTelemetry Collector to use Jaeger exporter and send trace data to this local Jaeger.

  • opentelemetry-js

    OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client

    • If you are writing a new instrumentation library, observing the tracing output in a UI can be much easier than browsing through textual logs. You can browse the JS instrumentation package for more info and examples.

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  • jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    • Jaeger (a CNCF graduated project) is a popular open-source project with backend components that does that and is easy to set up.

  • opentelemetry-specification

    Specifications for OpenTelemetry

    • A modern and recommended open-source client SDK that does that is OpenTelemetry.

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