Best Open-source Distributed Tracing tools

Grafana Tempo

Scalable, cost-efficient tracing backend with seamless Grafana integration

bpftrace

Powerful, scriptable eBPF tracing for Linux with awk-like syntax

Jaeger

End‑to‑end distributed tracing for cloud‑native applications at scale

uftrace

Comprehensive function call tracing for native and kernel code

Tokio Tracing

Structured, event-based diagnostics for Rust applications and libraries

Kamon

Unified tracing, metrics, and context propagation for JVM applications

magic-trace

High‑resolution, low‑overhead tracing of every function call

Zipkin

Trace, visualize, and troubleshoot latency across microservices

XO

Programmable observability platform built for developers