Distributed Tracing
Providers using this tag (19)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
APIs with this tag (6)
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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...OpenTelemetry APIOpenTelemetry provides vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs, and instrumentation for generating traces, metrics, and l...Jaeger Collector APIThe Jaeger Collector API receives trace spans from instrumented applications and SDKs. Since Jaeger v1.11 t...Jaeger Remote Sampling APIThe Jaeger Remote Sampling API provides HTTP and gRPC endpoints that SDKs use to retrieve sampling strategi...Jaeger Remote Storage APIThe Jaeger Remote Storage API is a gRPC-based interface that allows extending Jaeger with custom storage ba...
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Score breakdown
Frequency
38.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
43.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
8.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
Traces 9 co-occurrences
OpenTelemetry 8 co-occurrences
APM 6 co-occurrences
Microservices 10 co-occurrences
Observability 19 co-occurrences
Logs 5 co-occurrences
Metrics 8 co-occurrences
Monitoring 9 co-occurrences
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