opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

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?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Exports OpenTelemetry tracing data to Jaeger using the Thrift protocol for distributed tracing and observability.

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

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

uv add opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

poetry add opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

Installing opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger-thrift

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.

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))

Requires a running Jaeger agent or collector accessible at the configured host and port to receive exported traces.

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

Evidence: opentelemetry_exporter_jaeger_thrift-1.21.0-py3-none-any.whl

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