Grafana Series - Unified Display - 10 - Explore Jaeger

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Explore Jaeger

You can query and display Jaeger traces through Explore. There are 3 methods:

• Query by search
• Query by trace ID
• Upload a JSON trace file

Query by search

To use this method:

1. Select Search from the Query type selector.
2. Fill in the search form (essentially the same as the Jaeger UI):

Name	Description
Service	Returns a list of services.
Operation	Appears when you select a service that has associated operations. Select all to query all operations.
Tags	Set tags with values in logfmt format, e.g. error=true db.statement=“select * from User”.
Min Duration	Filters all traces with a duration higher than the set value. Possible values are 1.2s, 100ms, 500us.
Max Duration	Filters all traces with a duration lower than the set value. Possible values are 1.2s, 100ms, 500us.
Limit	Limits the number of traces returned.

Query by trace ID

To query a specific trace:

1. Select the TraceID query type.
2. Enter the trace ID in the Trace ID field.

Upload a JSON trace file

JSON trace file example:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "traceID": "2ee9739529395e31",
      "spans": [
        {
          "traceID": "2ee9739529395e31",
          "spanID": "2ee9739529395e31",
          "flags": 1,
          "operationName": "CAS",
          "references": [],
          "startTime": 1616095319593196,
          "duration": 1004,
          "tags": [
            {
              "key": "sampler.type",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "const"
            }
          ],
          "logs": [],
          "processID": "p1",
          "warnings": null
        }
      ],
      "processes": {
        "p1": {
          "serviceName": "loki-all",
          "tags": [
            {
              "key": "jaeger.version",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "Go-2.25.0"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "warnings": null
    }
  ],
  "total": 0,
  "limit": 0,
  "offset": 0,
  "errors": null
}

Is There a Jaeger Dashboard?

As of now (2023/5/8), there are no trace-related dashboards in the Grafana Dashboards registry — neither for Grafana Tempo nor for Jaeger.

However, I’ve noticed that some panels are suitable for trace dashboard visualization, such as:

• Traces
  
• Node Graph
  

Trace-related dashboards should be available in the near future. Looking forward to it!