Best Open-source Distributed Tracing tools

Jaeger

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

Grafana Tempo

Scalable, cost-efficient tracing backend with seamless Grafana integration

bpftrace

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

Kamon

Unified tracing, metrics, and context propagation for JVM applications

magic-trace

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

Tokio Tracing

Structured, event-based diagnostics for Rust applications and libraries

uftrace

Comprehensive function call tracing for native and kernel code

Zipkin

Trace, visualize, and troubleshoot latency across microservices

XO

Programmable observability platform built for developers