Jaeger V2 Unveiled: Powered by OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E05

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/ OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability⁠ 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/⁠ Socials: Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon BlueSky: @horovits.bsky.social Yuri Shkuro ========== Twitter: https://twitter.com/YuriShkuro LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yurishkuro/