Jaeger V2 Unveiled: Powered by OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E05

OpenObservability Talks

In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, Dotan Horovits sits down with Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, to unveil the highly anticipated Jaeger V2. This major release introduces a new architecture with deep OpenTelemetry integration, which promises more flexibility, performance, extensibility and ease of use. Join us as Yuri shares insider details on the challenges, innovations, and roadmap for Jaeger V2 towards a more efficient and scalable distributed tracing solution.

Yuri is a software engineer who works on distributed tracing, observability, reliability, and performance problems, currently working at Meta; author of the book "Mastering Distributed Tracing"; creator of Jaeger, an open source distributed tracing platform originally developed at Uber; co-founder of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry CNCF projects; member of the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.

The episode was live-streamed on 14 October 2024, and the video is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=lICivVwm-F8.

Check out the recap blog at: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774/

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Show Notes:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 00:45 - Open Source Observability Day
• 01:46 - Episode and guest intro
• 04:37 - Jaeger v1.x highlights
• 09:04 - Jaeger scope evolution from instrumentation to backend
• 13:36 - Jaeger v2 - why now?
• 20:26 - New architecture for V2 - learnings for SW engineering
• 26:53 - Jaeger persistence layer, and do we need tracing-specialized database?
• 35:35 - extending OpenTelemetry to manage storage for Jaeger
• 38:57 - RC1 is out, when is GA expected and what's expected?
• 43:24 - Breaking changes and migration path from v1 to v2
• 48:31 - What's expected for Jaeger UI
• 51:24 - New contributors joining through mentorship programs
• 54:47 - Observability at Meta/Facebook: machine learning, correlation, OpenTelemetry
• 1:01:04 - Outro
  

Resources:

• https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/next-release-v2/getting-started/⁠
• https://medium.com/jaegertracing/towards-jaeger-v2-moar-opentelemetry-2f8239bee48e
• https://horovits.medium.com/observability-into-your-finops-taking-distributed-tracing-beyond-monitoring-48a51e32e78a
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35aInRLbTQo&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l0HKUDoX4Q&list=PLd57eY2edRXz4djMETYTm-2p8WGTdoX3D
• https://research.facebook.com/publications/positional-paper-schema-first-application-telemetry/⁠ ⁠
• https://research.facebook.com/publications/scuba-diving-into-data-at-facebook/⁠ ⁠
• https://osoday.com/⁠
  

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