CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Accepts Zipkin-format spans alongside OpenTelemetry.
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 23k
- Latest
- v2.22.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
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Zipkin
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
Side by side
| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaeger | Full replacement | 23k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v2.22.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Grafana Tempo | Full replacement | 5.5k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v3.1.0 | 2026-10-06 |
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Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend.
Stores traces in object storage and ingests Zipkin, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry formats.
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About Zipkin
- Language
- Java
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 17k
- Last push
- 2026-08-06