# Jaeger

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/jaeger/  
**Website:** https://www.jaegertracing.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 29.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 47.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Jaeger Agentic Access** — 9 operations

## Security (1)

- **Jaeger Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Jaeger Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Distributed Tracing, Microservices, Monitoring, Observability

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/jaeger/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.