Top 11 distributed tracing tools in 2021

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  • zipkin

    Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

  • Zipkin is an open-source APM tool used for distributed tracing. Zipkin captures timing data need to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures.

  • jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

  • Jaeger is an open-source APM tool developed at Uber, later donated to Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF). Inspired by Google's Dapper, Jaeger is a distributed tracing system.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • instana

    🔮 Crystal Distributed Tracing & Metrics Sensor for Instana

  • Instana is a distributed tracing tool aimed at microservice applications. The Instana platform offers website monitoring, cloud & infrastructure monitoring, observability platform apart from distributed tracing of microservice applications.

  • elasticsearch-mapper-attachments

    Discontinued Mapper Attachments Type plugin for Elasticsearch

  • Elastic APM is an Application Performance Monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack - ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It consists of four components:

  • signoz

    SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

  • SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM and observability tool. It captures both metrics and traces with log management currently in the product roadmap. Logs, metrics, and traces are considered to be the three pillars of observability in modern-day distributed systems.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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