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Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Chronosphere Data V1 APIThe Data API from Chronosphere - 9 operations for querying and writing telemetry: change events, log range ...51.2 Tempo TraceQL APITraceQL is a query language developed for Grafana Tempo that allows filtering and selecting spans within tr...39.8

Thin 5 Limited public surface area

Jaeger Collector APIThe Jaeger Collector API receives trace spans from instrumented applications and SDKs. Since Jaeger v1.11 t...36.7 Jaeger Remote Sampling APIThe Jaeger Remote Sampling API provides HTTP and gRPC endpoints that SDKs use to retrieve sampling strategi...36.7 Jaeger Remote Storage APIThe Jaeger Remote Storage API is a gRPC-based interface that allows extending Jaeger with custom storage ba...36.7 OpenTelemetry APIOpenTelemetry provides vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs, and instrumentation for generating traces, metrics, and l...30.8 Lightstep APIThe Lightstep API provides programmatic access to observability data including traces, spans, streams, dash...29.2

Companies reaching this through an API (1)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Distributed Tracing” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Scalable Software and Systems

Score breakdown

Frequency

38.7

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.5

spread across providers

Quality lift

49.3

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

8.7

strength of nearest seed neighbor

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Provider tag19

Api tag7

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Distributed Tracing

Providers using this tag (19)

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