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Jaeger

Grafana Cloud Enterprise Open source

Last reviewed: March 3, 2026

Jaeger data source

Grafana ships with built-in support for Jaeger, an open source, end-to-end distributed tracing system. Use the Jaeger data source to query and visualize traces, explore service dependencies, and correlate traces with logs and metrics.

Supported features

Feature	Supported
Traces	Yes
Metrics	No
Logs	No
Alerting	No
Annotations	No

Get started

The following documents help you set up and use the Jaeger data source:

Additional features

After configuring the data source, you can:

Use Explore to query traces without building a dashboard.
Enable the Node Graph visualization to display trace structure and service dependencies.
Configure trace to logs to link spans to log entries in Loki or Splunk.
Configure trace to metrics to navigate from traces to related metrics.
Link to Jaeger traces from logs using derived fields or from metrics using exemplars.