February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
444 pages
11h 36m
English
In this section, we will attempt to classify some of the projects in the distributed tracing space by the dimensions described earlier. The following table provides a quick summary of the areas where each project has some exposure, such as a dependency or an influence on a specific data format.
|
Project |
Analyzing transactions |
Recording transactions |
Federating transactions |
Describing transactions |
Correlating transactions |
|
Tracing tool |
Tracer/agent |
Trace data |
App/OSS instrumentation |
Metadata | |
|
Zipkin | |||||
|
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ | |
|
Jaeger |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ | |
|
SkyWalking |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Stackdriver,X-Ray, and so on |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
W3C Trace Context |
✔ | ||||
|
W3C "Data Interchange Format" |
✔ | ||||
|
OpenCensus |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ | |
|
OpenTracing |
✔ |