How to Install & Set Up Jaeger

Run Jaeger for distributed tracing across microservices — the all-in-one Docker image gets you a UI and OTLP endpoints instantly.

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Prerequisites

✓A host with Docker
✓Services instrumented with OpenTelemetry or the Jaeger clients

Run the all-in-one image

terminal

docker run -d --name jaeger \
  -p 16686:16686 \
  -p 4317:4317 -p 4318:4318 \
  jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest

Ports 4317/4318 accept OpenTelemetry (OTLP) gRPC/HTTP spans; 16686 serves the UI. all-in-one keeps traces in memory — use a real storage backend (Cassandra, Elasticsearch) for production. This is a container image, so the command is identical on RHEL and Ubuntu hosts.

Verify

Open http://localhost:16686, generate some traced requests, and search for them by service in the UI.

Documentation & Knowledge Base

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