@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger

What is @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger?

@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger is an npm package that allows you to export OpenTelemetry traces to Jaeger, a popular open-source distributed tracing system. This package is part of the OpenTelemetry project, which provides a set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to enable observability for cloud-native software.

What are @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger's main functionalities?

Exporting Traces to Jaeger

This code sample demonstrates how to set up the Jaeger exporter with OpenTelemetry in a Node.js application. It configures the exporter to send traces to a Jaeger instance running locally and starts a simple trace.

const { NodeTracerProvider } = require('@opentelemetry/node');
const { SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
const { JaegerExporter } = require('@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger');

const provider = new NodeTracerProvider();
const exporter = new JaegerExporter({
  serviceName: 'my-service',
  endpoint: 'http://localhost:14268/api/traces',
});

provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));
provider.register();

// Now you can start tracing your application
const tracer = provider.getTracer('example-tracer');
const span = tracer.startSpan('example-span');
span.end();

Configuring Exporter Options

This code sample shows how to configure additional options for the Jaeger exporter, such as setting custom tags and specifying the maximum packet size.

const exporter = new JaegerExporter({
  serviceName: 'my-service',
  endpoint: 'http://localhost:14268/api/traces',
  tags: [], // Optional: Add custom tags
  maxPacketSize: 65000, // Optional: Set max packet size
});

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README

(Deprecated) OpenTelemetry Jaeger Trace Exporter for Node.js

NOTE: Support for @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger will end March 2024, please use any of the following packages instead:

• @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-proto
• @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-grpc
• @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http

NOTE: Bundling (with e.g. webpack, rollup, esbuild, ...) is not supported by this package. Please use @opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-proto instead.

OpenTelemetry Jaeger Trace Exporter allows the user to send collected traces to Jaeger.

Jaeger, inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies. It is used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems, including:

• Distributed context propagation
• Distributed transaction monitoring
• Root cause analysis
• Service dependency analysis
• Performance / latency optimization

Prerequisites

This project relies on jaeger-client library and is thus only supported for Node.js.

Get up and running with Jaeger in your local environment.

Jaeger stores and queries traces exported by applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry. The easiest way to start a Jaeger server is to paste the below:

docker run -d --name jaeger \
  -e COLLECTOR_ZIPKIN_HTTP_PORT=9411 \
  -p 5775:5775/udp \
  -p 6831:6831/udp \
  -p 6832:6832/udp \
  -p 5778:5778 \
  -p 16686:16686 \
  -p 14268:14268 \
  -p 9411:9411 \
  jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest

Or run the jaeger-all-in-one(.exe) executable from the binary distribution archives:

jaeger-all-in-one --collector.zipkin.http-port=9411

You can then navigate to http://localhost:16686 to access the Jaeger UI.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger

Usage

Install the exporter on your application and pass the options, it must contain a service name.

Furthermore, the host option (which defaults to localhost), can instead be set by the OTEL_EXPORTER_JAEGER_AGENT_HOST environment variable to reduce in-code config. If both are set, the value set by the option in code is authoritative.

import { JaegerExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger';

const options = {
  tags: [], // optional
  // You can use the default UDPSender
  host: 'localhost', // optional
  port: 6832, // optional
  // OR you can use the HTTPSender as follows
  // endpoint: 'http://localhost:14268/api/traces',
  maxPacketSize: 65000 // optional
}
const exporter = new JaegerExporter(options);

Now, register the exporter.

const tracerProvider = new NodeTracerProvider({
  spanProcessors: [new BatchSpanProcessor(exporter)]
})

const tracer = traceProvider.getTracer('my-tracer')

You can use built-in SimpleSpanProcessor or BatchSpanProcessor or write your own.

• SimpleSpanProcessor: The implementation of SpanProcessor that passes ended span directly to the configured SpanExporter.
• BatchSpanProcessor: The implementation of the SpanProcessor that batches ended spans and pushes them to the configured SpanExporter. It is recommended to use this SpanProcessor for better performance and optimization.

Useful links

• To know more about Jaeger, visit: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/getting-started/
• For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit: https://opentelemetry.io/
• For more about OpenTelemetry JavaScript: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
• For help or feedback on this project, join us in GitHub Discussions

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.

Changelog

1.30.0

:rocket: (Enhancement)

• feat(sdk-metrics): PeriodicExportingMetricReader now flushes pending tasks at shutdown #5242

:bug: (Bug Fix)

• fix(sdk-trace-base): do not load OTEL_ env vars on module load, but when needed #5233
• fix(instrumentation-xhr, instrumentation-fetch): content length attributes no longer get removed with ignoreNetworkEvents: true being set #5229