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Distributed Tracing

Score 21.3 / 100 18 providers 5 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (18)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Datadog APMAPMMicroservicesObservability2 APIs81.9BugsnagMonitoringObservabilityError MonitoringApplication Performance Monitoring5 APIs78.4
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
ChronosphereObservabilityAIOpsMonitoringMetrics4 APIs62.4Amazon X-RayApplication PerformanceDebuggingDeveloper Tools2 APIs60.5
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
AWS X-RayDebuggingDeveloper ToolsMicroservices1 API50.2SigNozAPMAlertingCloud MonitoringDashboards1 API49.2LumigoCompanyObservabilityMonitoringServerless1 API47.7Google Cloud TraceGoogle CloudLatencyObservability1 API42.1QuickwitSearchLog ManagementObservabilityFull-Text Search1 API42.1
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
ZipkinObservabilityOpen SourceMicroservices1 API38.8TempoObservabilityOpenTelemetryGrafana1 API38.4Apache ZipkinMicroservicesMonitoringObservability1 API37.1UptraceAPMObservabilityOpenTelemetry1 API35.5JaegerMicroservicesMonitoringObservability1 API34.0Grafana TempoGrafanaMicroservicesObservability1 API32.5LightstepAPMMicroservicesMonitoring1 API27.8
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Apache SkyWalkingAPMApplication Performance MonitoringCloud-Native3 APIs22.6
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
EpsagonCompanyObservabilityMonitoringApplication Performance Monitoring0.0

APIs with this tag (5)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Tempo TraceQL APITraceQL is a query language developed for Grafana Tempo that allows filtering and selecting spans within tr...38.4Jaeger Collector APIThe Jaeger Collector API receives trace spans from instrumented applications and SDKs. Since Jaeger v1.11 t...34.0Jaeger Remote Sampling APIThe Jaeger Remote Sampling API provides HTTP and gRPC endpoints that SDKs use to retrieve sampling strategi...34.0Jaeger Remote Storage APIThe Jaeger Remote Storage API is a gRPC-based interface that allows extending Jaeger with custom storage ba...34.0Lightstep APIThe Lightstep API provides programmatic access to observability data including traces, spans, streams, dash...27.8

Score breakdown

Frequency
37.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
53.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
7.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Observability broader

Related tags

Traces 9 co-occurrences OpenTelemetry 8 co-occurrences APM 5 co-occurrences Microservices 8 co-occurrences Observability 18 co-occurrences Monitoring 12 co-occurrences Metrics 7 co-occurrences Open Source 6 co-occurrences

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Provider tag18
Api tag5

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