Jaeger V2: The Maintainers' Guide To OpenTelemetry-Native Tracing - Pavol Loffay, Red Hat

This talk features Pavol Loffay from Red Hat, who discusses Jaeger v2 and its integration with OpenTelemetry as a core component of the project's architecture. The session focuses on how OpenTelemetry drives advancements in distributed tracing and observability, highlighting key updates such as improved UI customization, dark themes, and fuzzy search capabilities. The speaker also covers backend enhancements, including new storage options like experimental ClickHouse support and compatibility with updated versions of Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, along with the development of Service Performance Monitoring. Attendees will experience a live demonstration in a Kubernetes environment and explore the roadmap for the future, which includes the deprecation of Jaeger v1 by the end of 2025 and opportunities for community engagement through LFX and Google Summer of Code programs.