Jaeger: The Future with OpenTelemetry and Metrics

This presentation explores the evolution of Jaeger, a distributed tracing system, and its integration with OpenTelemetry and metrics. The speakers discuss the deprecation of Jaeger's native clients in favor of OpenTelemetry SDKs, best practices for auto-instrumentation, and how Jaeger is transitioning into a monitoring system by deriving metrics from traces. The talk also covers the OpenTelemetry Collector's role in existing Jaeger deployments, the Jaeger operator for Kubernetes, and the integration of span metrics for operational monitoring and visualization in tools like Prometheus and Grafana.