OpenShift Commons Briefing #82: Distributed Tracing with Jaeger & Prometheus on Kubernetes

OpenShift Commons Briefing Summary

In this briefing, Uber’s Yuri Shkuro and Red Hat’s Gary Brown, both core contributors to the Jaeger Distributed Tracing project gave a great introduction to Distributed Tracing and a live demonstration of using Jaeger with Prometheus on Kubernetes.

Jaeger was inspired by Dapper and OpenZipkin, is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies.

There was a lively Q/A session at the end of the briefing so be sure to listen to the end!

Here's the link to download the slides from this session: OpenShift Commons Briefing- OpenTracing and Jaeger

Additional Resources:

CNCF OpenTracing Project:

• http://opentracing.io
• chat: https://gitter.im/opentracing/public

Jaeger:

• https://github.com/uber/jaeger
• chat: https://gitter.im/jaegertracing/Lobby
• HotROD demo (blog): https://t.co/dr0jnrLVB0
• Metrics demo (blog): https://t.co/ZiD8OFRiBF

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