opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift
Jaeger Thrift Exporter for OpenTelemetry
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
No, unless you are maintaining a legacy Jaeger deployment that requires Thrift protocol support. The package is deprecated, no longer tested, and reached end-of-support in July 2023. New projects should use the OTLP exporter instead. For existing deployments, evaluate whether upgrading to Jaeger v1.35+ and switching to OTLP is feasible before adopting this package.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires a running Jaeger agent or collector accessible at the configured host and port to receive exported traces.
- Low install friction with three straightforward runtime dependencies.
- Actively maintained repository, though the package itself has not been released since 2023-11-07 and is no longer being tested—Jaeger has supported OTLP natively since v1.35, and this exporter's support ended July 2023.
License · maintenance · safety
permissive license (permissive) — Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), imposing no significant restrictions on use or redistribution.
last release 2023-11-07 (1011 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 2,588 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 610,584 downloads/mo, #5,764 on PyPI
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pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift
from opentelemetry.exporter.jaeger.thrift import JaegerExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
jaeger_exporter = JaegerExporter(agent_host_name="localhost")
tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
tracer_provider.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(jaeger_exporter))- Whether the package will continue to receive security patches or bug fixes despite being out of active support.
- Whether existing Jaeger v1.35+ deployments can still accept Thrift exports or have fully migrated to OTLP-only.
- Performance or compatibility implications of using this deprecated exporter versus the recommended OTLP alternative.
What it is and what it does
This package bridges OpenTelemetry tracing instrumentation to Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform, by exporting span data via the Thrift protocol. It integrates with opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk to capture and forward traces from your application to a Jaeger backend for visualization and analysis.
However, the package is deprecated: Jaeger has supported OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) natively since v1.35, and this Thrift exporter reached end-of-support in July 2023. The package is no longer being tested and has not been released since November 2023. New projects should use the OTLP exporter instead; this package is suitable only for maintaining legacy Jaeger deployments that still require Thrift protocol support.
Use it for
- Export traces from legacy applications already instrumented with OpenTelemetry to Jaeger backends that do not yet support OTLP.
- Maintain compatibility with existing Jaeger deployments configured to receive Thrift-protocol traces.
- Integrate OpenTelemetry tracing into older microservice architectures where Jaeger is the established observability backend.
- Debug and visualize distributed request flows across services by exporting traces to Jaeger's UI.
Worth the install?
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No, unless you are maintaining a legacy Jaeger deployment that requires Thrift protocol support.
The package is deprecated, no longer tested, and reached end-of-support in July 2023. New projects should use the OTLP exporter instead. For existing deployments, evaluate whether upgrading to Jaeger v1.35+ and switching to OTLP is feasible before adopting this package.
Install
opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with three straightforward runtime dependencies. Actively maintained repository, though the package itself has not been released since 2023-11-07 and is no longer being tested—Jaeger has supported OTLP natively since v1.35, and this exporter's support ended July 2023.
Requires a running Jaeger agent or collector accessible at the configured host and port to receive exported traces.
License in practice
Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), imposing no significant restrictions on use or redistribution.
Quickstart
pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift
from opentelemetry.exporter.jaeger.thrift import JaegerExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
jaeger_exporter = JaegerExporter(agent_host_name="localhost")
tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
tracer_provider.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(jaeger_exporter))Verify before relying
- Whether the package will continue to receive security patches or bug fixes despite being out of active support.
- Whether existing Jaeger v1.35+ deployments can still accept Thrift exports or have fully migrated to OTLP-only.
- Performance or compatibility implications of using this deprecated exporter versus the recommended OTLP alternative.
Package facts
| License | permissive license permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.7 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 3 packagesopentelemetry-apiopentelemetry-sdkthrift |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 1,011 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 610,584 / month, #5,764 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software LicenseProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Typing :: Typed |
Evidence: opentelemetry_exporter_jaeger_thrift-1.21.0-py3-none-any.whl
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See also opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger · opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-proto-grpc · opentelemetry-propagator-jaeger · opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc · opentelemetry-exporter-otlp · thriftpy2 · thrift · jaeger-client · pytest-opentelemetry