Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform 2.5

As a service owner, you can use distributed tracing to instrument your services to gather insights into your service architecture. You can use the Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform for monitoring, network profiling, and troubleshooting the interaction between components in modern, cloud-native, microservices-based applications.

With the distributed tracing platform, you can perform the following functions:

The distributed tracing platform consists of three components:

This release introduces support for ingesting OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) to the Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing platform (Jaeger) Operator. The Operator now automatically enables the OTLP ports:

This release also adds support for collecting Kubernetes resource attributes to the Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry Operator.

This release addresses Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and bug fixes.

If you experience difficulty with a procedure described in this documentation, or with OpenShift Container Platform in general, visit the Red Hat Customer Portal. From the Customer Portal, you can:

To identify issues with your cluster, you can use Insights in OpenShift Cluster Manager Hybrid Cloud Console. Insights provides details about issues and, if available, information on how to solve a problem.

If you have a suggestion for improving this documentation or have found an error, submit a Jira issue for the most relevant documentation component. Please provide specific details, such as the section name and OpenShift Container Platform version.

Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. We are beginning with these four terms: master, slave, blacklist, and whitelist. Because of the enormity of this endeavor, these changes will be implemented gradually over several upcoming releases. For more details, see our CTO Chris Wright’s message.