Jaeger

Jaeger is an open source, end-to-end distributed tracing system for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based architectures. Jaeger provides visibility into distributed system behavior through trace collection, storage, and visualization.

Jaeger publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Dependencies API, Metrics API, Services API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Distributed Tracing, Microservices, Monitoring, and Observability.

The Jaeger catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Jaeger’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, changelog, and 18 more developer resources.

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35.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Heartbeat 51/100 alive self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 published contract

Distributed Tracing Microservices Monitoring Observability

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

DependenciesMetricsServicesTraces

GET /api/metrics/latencies GET /api/metrics/errors GET /api/traces GET /api/dependencies

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 35.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.4 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 3.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Contract Quality scores 41.5 — up to +14.6 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 35.7 — up to +12.9 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	standard	56.3	-	1
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	56.3	-	1
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	standard	56.3	-	1
Buf Schema Registry (public Protocol Buffers modules, gRPC / ConnectRPC schema publishers)	standard	56.3	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Jaeger Collector API

The Jaeger Collector API receives trace spans from instrumented applications and SDKs. Since Jaeger v1.11 the primary protocol is the jaeger.api_v2.CollectorService gRPC endpoin...

Jaeger Remote Storage API

The Jaeger Remote Storage API is a gRPC-based interface that allows extending Jaeger with custom storage backends. Any backend implementing this API can be deployed as a remote ...

Jaeger Remote Sampling API

The Jaeger Remote Sampling API provides HTTP and gRPC endpoints that SDKs use to retrieve sampling strategies for distributed trace collection. It is implemented by the jaeger-c...

Jaeger Dependencies API

Endpoints for retrieving service dependency graphs.

Jaeger Metrics API

Endpoints for retrieving service performance metrics including latency, call rates, and error rates.

Jaeger Services API

Endpoints for listing services and their operations.

Jaeger Traces API

Endpoints for searching and retrieving distributed traces.

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Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Jaeger Query Dependencies API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jaeger Query Dependencies Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jaeger Query API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jaeger Query Dependencies Services API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jaeger Query Dependencies Traces API

OPEN COLLECTION

Jaeger API pricing

Not yet checked against Jaeger's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Jaeger's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Jaeger Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Jaeger Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Jaeger

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Jaeger Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Jaeger — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Jaeger Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Jaeger Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

Community

Support

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

License

License

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: jaeger
name: Jaeger
description: Jaeger is an open source, end-to-end distributed tracing system for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based
  architectures. Jaeger provides visibility into distributed system behavior through trace collection, storage, and visualization.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/jaeger.png
tags:
- Distributed Tracing
- Microservices
- Monitoring
- Observability
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jaeger/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: jaeger:jaeger-collector-api
  name: Jaeger Collector API
  description: The Jaeger Collector API receives trace spans from instrumented applications and SDKs. Since Jaeger v1.11 the
    primary protocol is the jaeger.api_v2.CollectorService gRPC endpoint; the collector also accepts OTLP traces (binary gRPC,
    Protobuf over HTTP, JSON over HTTP) since v1.35, as well as legacy Thrift over UDP and HTTP formats.
  humanURL: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  tags:
  - Collectors
  - Distributed Tracing
  - gRPC
  - OTLP
  tags_raw:
  - Collector
  - Distributed Tracing
  - gRPC
  - OTLP
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-idl/blob/main/proto/api_v2/collector.proto
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
- aid: jaeger:jaeger-remote-storage-api
  name: Jaeger Remote Storage API
  description: The Jaeger Remote Storage API is a gRPC-based interface that allows extending Jaeger with custom storage backends.
    Any backend implementing this API can be deployed as a remote gRPC server and plugged into Jaeger components in place
    of built-in storage engines (available since v1.30).
  humanURL: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  tags:
  - Distributed Tracing
  - Extensions
  - gRPC
  - Storage
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-idl/blob/main/proto/api_v2/query.proto
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
- aid: jaeger:jaeger-remote-sampling-api
  name: Jaeger Remote Sampling API
  description: The Jaeger Remote Sampling API provides HTTP and gRPC endpoints that SDKs use to retrieve sampling strategies
    for distributed trace collection. It is implemented by the jaeger-collector and defined in the sampling.proto IDL, supporting
    both static file-based and adaptive sampling strategies.
  humanURL: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  tags:
  - Configuration
  - Distributed Tracing
  - gRPC
  - Sampling
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-idl/blob/main/proto/api_v2/sampling.proto
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
- aid: jaeger:jaeger-dependencies-api
  name: Jaeger Dependencies API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving service dependency graphs.
  humanURL: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  tags:
  - Dependencies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jaeger-dependencies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- aid: jaeger:jaeger-metrics-api
  name: Jaeger Metrics API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving service performance metrics including latency, call rates, and error rates.
  humanURL: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jaeger-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- aid: jaeger:jaeger-services-api
  name: Jaeger Services API
  description: Endpoints for listing services and their operations.
  humanURL: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  tags:
  - Services
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jaeger-services-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- aid: jaeger:jaeger-traces-api
  name: Jaeger Traces API
  description: Endpoints for searching and retrieving distributed traces.
  humanURL: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  tags:
  - Traces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/jaeger-traces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/apis/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/jaeger-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/jaeger-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/jaeger-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/jaeger-capability-edges.yml
  name: Jaeger Business Capability Map
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/jaeger-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/jaeger-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/latest/getting-started/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/news/
- type: Community
  url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/get-involved/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.jaegertracing.io/get-in-touch/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/jaeger-trace.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/jaeger-trace.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Jaeger API — frequently asked questions

Does Jaeger have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Jaeger, including Jaeger Collector API, Jaeger Remote Storage API and Jaeger Remote Sampling API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Jaeger API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Jaeger, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Jaeger API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Jaeger, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Jaeger API ready for AI agents?

Jaeger has a Kin Score of 35.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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