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Jaeger overview

As a service owner, you can use Jaeger to instrument your services to gather insights into your service architecture. Jaeger is an open source distributed tracing platform that you can use for monitoring, network profiling, and troubleshooting the interaction between components in modern, cloud-native, microservices-based applications.

Using Jaeger lets you perform the following functions:

  • Monitor distributed transactions

  • Optimize performance and latency

  • Perform root cause analysis

Jaeger is based on the vendor-neutral OpenTracing APIs and instrumentation.

Getting support

If you experience difficulty with a procedure described in this documentation, visit the Red Hat Customer Portal. Through the Customer Portal, you can:

  • Search or browse through the Red Hat Knowledgebase of technical support articles about Red Hat products.

  • Submit a support case to Red Hat Support.

    When submitting a support case, it is recommended to provide the following information about your cluster to Red Hat Support to aid in troubleshooting:

    • Data gathered using the oc adm must-gather command

    • The unique cluster ID. Navigate to (?) HelpOpen Support Case to have the cluster ID autofilled when you submit the case.

  • Access other product documentation.

If you have a suggestion for improving this documentation or have found an error, please submit a Bugzilla report against the OpenShift Container Platform product for the Documentation component. Please provide specific details, such as the section name and OpenShift Container Platform version.

New features OpenShift Jaeger 1.17.4

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

New features OpenShift Jaeger 1.17.3

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

New features OpenShift Jaeger 1.17.2

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

New features OpenShift Jaeger 1.17.1

This release of OpenShift Jaeger adds support for installing Jaeger as a standalone solution, rather than as a component of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh.

Jaeger known issues

These limitations exist in Jaeger:

  • While Kafka publisher is included as part of Jaeger, it is not supported.

  • Apache Spark is not supported.

  • Only self-provisioned Elasticsearch instances are supported. External Elasticsearch instances are not supported in this release.

These are the known issues in Jaeger:

  • TRACING-1166 It is not currently possible to use the Jaeger streaming strategy within a disconnected environment. When a Kafka cluster is being provisioned, it results in a error: Failed to pull image registry.redhat.io/amq7/amq-streams-kafka-24-rhel7@sha256:f9ceca004f1b7dccb3b82d9a8027961f9fe4104e0ed69752c0bdd8078b4a1076.

  • TRACING-809 Jaeger Ingester is incompatible with Kafka 2.3. When there are two or more instances of the Jaeger Ingester and enough traffic it will continuously generate rebalancing messages in the logs. This is due to a regression in Kafka 2.3 that was fixed in Kafka 2.3.1. For more information, see Jaegertracing-1819.