OpenObservability Talks

Jaeger V2 Unveiled: Powered by OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E05

Oct 28, 2024

Yuri Shkuro, observability engineer at Meta and creator of Jaeger, dives into the groundbreaking Jaeger V2 release, emphasizing its deep integration with OpenTelemetry. He discusses the architectural advancements and enhanced user interface, making tracing more efficient. Yuri highlights future UI enhancements and community mentorship's role in Jaeger's growth. Additionally, he touches on the complexities of observability in machine learning, showcasing how OpenTelemetry addresses these challenges.

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Quick takeaways

Jaeger V2 showcases a significant architectural shift with deep OpenTelemetry integration, enhancing flexibility and performance in distributed tracing.

The introduction of the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for data ingestion reflects Jaeger's commitment to standardization and broader community engagement.

Community-driven initiatives, such as mentorship programs, have been pivotal in advancing Jaeger's functionality and facilitating new contributor involvement.

Deep dives

Significance of Open Source Observability Day

Open Source Observability Day is highlighted as an upcoming virtual community conference dedicated to open source observability. This free event is scheduled for October 24th, 2024, and features several prominent speakers including experts from Honeycomb, Victoria Metrics, and Percona. The host is excited to present a talk on OpenTelemetry during this conference. This event represents an opportunity for the community to engage, learn, and share insights on impactful observability practices.

Intro

3min

The Evolution of Jaeger and OpenTelemetry

13min

Harnessing Jaeger V2 with OpenTelemetry

22min

Jaeger V2: Transition and Updates

10min

Exploring Jaeger UI Enhancements and Future Integration

3min

Empowering Development Through Community Mentorship

3min

Navigating Machine Learning Observability

8min

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