9 alternatives to jaeger
jaegertracing/jaeger — CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform (23,344 stars, Apache-2.0, search, infra, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 548 licence-cleared components from jaegertracing/jaeger itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | signoz/signoz | 6.4 | MIT | 32,413 |
| 2 | open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 2,751 |
| 3 | open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 6,581 |
| 4 | gogf/gf | 7.8 | MIT | 13,287 |
| 5 | deepflowio/deepflow | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 4,309 |
| 6 | pragmaticivan/nestjs-otel | 4.6 | Apache-2.0 | 799 |
| 7 | open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 7,697 |
| 8 | open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 1,389 |
| 9 | superloglabs/superlog | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 1,475 |
The alternatives in detail
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SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for your team and their AI agents. Get logs, metrics, and traces in one tool with features like APM, distributed tracing, log management, infra monito
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The Rust OpenTelemetry implementationscore 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,751 stars · 178 components · search them
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OpenTelemetry Go API and SDKscore 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 6,581 stars · 349 components · search them
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A powerful framework for faster, easier, and more efficient project development.score 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 13,287 stars · 1,099 components · search them
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eBPF Observability - Distributed Tracing and Profilingscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 4,309 stars · 1,836 components · search them
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OpenTelemetry (Tracing + Metrics) module for Nest framework (node.js) 🔭score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 799 stars · 20 components · search them
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OpenTelemetry Collectorscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 7,697 stars · 623 components · search them
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The OpenTelemetry C++ Clientscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,389 stars · 813 components · search them
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Open-source observability tool that uses AI agents to self-heal your softwarescore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,475 stars · 655 components · search them
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