Supported Tracer Implementations

Zipkin

Zipkin supports OpenTracing in various languages via community contributions. There is an experimental bridge from Brave (Zipkin Java) instrumentation to OpenTracing and a Go implementation zipkin-go-opentracing. Some of Jaeger's client libraries (see below) can be configured to be compatible with Zipkin backend and wire format.

Jaeger

Jaeger \ˈyā-gər\ is Uber's distributed tracing system, built with OpenTracing support from inception. Jaeger includes OpenTracing client libraries in several languages: Java, Go, Python, and Node.js.

Appdash

Appdash (background reading) is a lightweight, Golang-based distributed tracing system, originally developed and since open-sourced by sourcegraph. There is an OpenTracing-compatible Tracer implementation that uses Appdash as a backend.

For more details, read the godocs.

LightStep

LightStep runs a private beta with OpenTracing-native tracers in production environments. There are OpenTracing-compatible LightStep Tracers available for Go, Python, Javascript, Objective-C, Java, PHP, Ruby, and C++.

Hawkular

Hawkular APM supports OpenTracing-Java and has plans to support other platforms in the near future.

Instana

Instana provides an APM solution supporting OpenTracing in Java, Node.js and Go. The Instana OpenTracing tracers are interoperable with the other Instana out of the box tracers for Java, Scala, NodeJs, PHP and Ruby.

sky-walking

sky-walking is an open-source tracer in Java, based on auto-instrumentation mechanism. Support OpenTracing-Java by sky-walking application toolkit.

inspectIT

inspectIT aims to be an End-to-End APM solution for Java with support for OpenTracing. The instrumentation capability allows to set up inspectIT in no time with an extensive support for different frameworks and application servers. For more information, take a look at the documentation.

stagemonitor

Stagemonitor is an open-source tracing, profiling and metrics solution for Java applications. It uses byte code manipulation to automatically trace your application without code changes. Stagemonitor is compatible with various OpenTracing implementations and can report to multiple back-ends like Elasticsearch and Zipkin. It also tracks metrics, like response time and error rates.