What is OpenTracing?
Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation.
OpenTracing is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
OpenTracing is an open source tool with 3.5K GitHub stars and 315 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to OpenTracing's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses OpenTracing?
Companies
18 companies reportedly use OpenTracing in their tech stacks, including Trafi, QuintoAndar, and www.autotrader.co.uk.
Developers
81 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenTracing.
OpenTracing Integrations
Golang, Express Gateway, LightStep, Akutan, and Helidon are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenTracing. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with OpenTracing.
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OpenTracing Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenTracing?
Zipkin
It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. Features include both the collection and lookup of this data.
Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
Jaeger
Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing System
Fluentd
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure.
OpenCensus
It is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metrics and distributed traces, then transfer the data to a backend of your choice in real time. This data can be analyzed by developers and admins to understand the health of the application and debug problems.