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id: opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc
version: "1.21.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc — Jaeger Protobuf Exporter for OpenTelemetry

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 375.1K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package provides a gRPC-based exporter that sends OpenTelemetry trace spans to Jaeger, a distributed tracing backend. It bridges the OpenTelemetry instrumentation layer with Jaeger's collection and visualization infrastructure, allowing you to observe request flows across microservices.

The exporter integrates with opentelemetry-sdk via a span processor and can be configured through constructor parameters or environment variables. However, the package is deprecated: Jaeger has supported the OpenTelemetry Protocol natively since v1.35, and this exporter's support ended in July 2023. The package is no longer tested, making it a legacy choice for new projects.

Use it for:

- Export traces from legacy systems still using the Jaeger Protobuf protocol before migrating to OTLP.
- Integrate OpenTelemetry instrumentation with existing Jaeger deployments that have not yet adopted OTLP.
- Collect distributed traces from microservices and visualize request latency and error paths in Jaeger.
- Debug multi-service request flows by exporting span data with timing, tags, and logs to a centralized Jaeger instance.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Exports OpenTelemetry tracing data to Jaeger using gRPC and Protocol Buffers, enabling distributed tracing collection and visualization.

No, unless you are maintaining a legacy system already using this exporter. The package is deprecated and no longer tested; the description explicitly recommends using the OTLP exporter instead. For new projects, use an OTLP variant. If you must use this, understand that you are on an unsupported path and should plan migration.

## Install

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc
uv add opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc
poetry add opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc

## Installing opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel and four runtime dependencies. Actively maintained repository, though the package has not been released since 2023-11-07 and is no longer being tested.

License in practice: Permissive Apache license allows use in most commercial and open-source projects without significant restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc

from opentelemetry.exporter.jaeger.proto.grpc import JaegerExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor

jaeger_exporter = JaegerExporter(agent_host_name="localhost")
tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
tracer_provider.add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(jaeger_exporter))

Requires a running Jaeger agent or collector to receive exported spans; gRPC connectivity to Jaeger backend must be available.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package remains compatible with current Jaeger versions despite no recent releases.
- Status of the July 2023 end-of-support deadline mentioned in the description and whether it has been enforced.
- Whether the OTLP exporter is a drop-in replacement or requires configuration changes.
- Default Jaeger agent port and configuration parameters for the JaegerExporter constructor.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 375.1K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

jaeger tracing exporter, opentelemetry jaeger grpc, distributed tracing export, jaeger protobuf exporter, opentelemetry trace collection, jaeger span export, grpc tracing backend, deprecated, distributed-tracing, observability

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