Deep Dive: Jaeger

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Jaeger is a production-grade distributed tracing backend that the demo wires to the HotROD microservices app, storing traces in Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Badger and showing a 1.6s request that exposes Redis timeouts. It supports adaptive sampling, head- and tail-based sampling tradeoffs, and two architectures: v1 with Spark batch analytics and v2 with Kafka + Flink streaming for real-time dependency graphs. The UI compares traces structurally today and plans duration-based comparisons; agent/collector deployment and multiple storage plugins are shown working end to end.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:00Modern Distributed Systems are COMPLEX
3. 3:08Traditional monitoring tools don't help
4. 6:01Project & Community
5. 6:28Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
6. 7:27Jaeger Architecture (v2)
7. 11:18Jaeger 3 Open Standards
8. 12:14Technology Stack
9. 13:36Integrations
10. 14:23New Features
11. 22:06Demo Setup
12. 26:40Common Questions

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