Jaeger V2: OpenTelemetry at the Core of Modern Distributed Tracing
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 17:00· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12·
summary
Jaeger v2 replatforms the backend on OpenTelemetry and ships as a single binary that remains backward compatible with Jaeger v1 data and APIs. It embeds the spanmetrics connector to derive Prometheus-compatible request rate, error rate and duration metrics, offers critical path visualization and remote sampling, and supports Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and Cassandra today with official ClickHouse work nearly complete. Deployments include Helm chart and a Kubernetes operator; Kafka buffering and operatorized installs are validated in production.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Jaeger introduction
- 1:24Why tracing matters
- 3:34Tracing concepts
- 5:03Live Jaeger demo
- 8:56Advanced trace analysis
- 10:42Monitoring with traces
- 13:55Jaeger monitoring demo
- 15:20Jaeger V2 architecture
- 18:12Jaeger V2 deployments
- 20:44Remote sampling features
- 21:50Recent updates
- 23:15Jaeger roadmap
- 25:05Q&A
