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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.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1signoz/signoz6.4MIT32,413
2open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust4.8Apache-2.02,751
3open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go4.8Apache-2.06,581
4gogf/gf7.8MIT13,287
5deepflowio/deepflow4.7Apache-2.04,309
6pragmaticivan/nestjs-otel4.6Apache-2.0799
7open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector4.7Apache-2.07,697
8open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp4.7Apache-2.01,389
9superloglabs/superlog4.7Apache-2.01,475

The alternatives in detail

Licence data: JustClaw-It's per-repo licence policy. Is jaeger still maintained? Check it. Licence details: licence checker. Ranking data from 2026-10-29T06:21:36Z.

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