Traces with Jaeger

In this quick start guide, we will set up a Quickwit instance and analyze its own traces with Jaeger using Docker Compose.

You only need a minute to get Jaeger working with Quickwit storage backend.

Start Quickwit and Jaeger

Let's use docker compose with the following configuration:

yaml

version: "3"

services:
  quickwit:
    image: quickwit/quickwit:${QW_VERSION:-0.8.1}
    volumes:
      - ./qwdata:/quickwit/qwdata
    ports:
      - 7280:7280
    environment:
      - QW_ENABLE_OPENTELEMETRY_OTLP_EXPORTER=true
      - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:7281
    command: ["run"]

  jaeger-query:
    image: jaegertracing/jaeger-query:1.60
    ports:
      - 16686:16686
    environment:
      - SPAN_STORAGE_TYPE=grpc
      - GRPC_STORAGE_SERVER=quickwit:7281
      - GRPC_STORAGE_TLS=false

As you can see in the docker compose file, Quickwit is configured to send its own traces OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT to itself http://localhost:7281. On the other side, Jaeger is configured to use a gRPC storage server quickwit:7281.

Save and run the recipe:

bash

$ docker compose up

You should be able to access Quickwit's UI on http://localhost:7280/ and Jager's UI on http://localhost:16686/.

Searching and view traces in Jaeger

Quickwit generates many traces, let's take a look at some of them:

find_traces: generated by the "Find traces" Jaeger button.
get_operations: generated by Jaeger when it is fetching the list of operations.
get_services: generated by Jaeger when it is fetching the list of services.
ingest-spans: generated when Quickwit receives spans on the gRPC OTLP API.
...

Here are the screenshots of the search and trace view:

Searching traces with Quickwit UI

You can also use the Quickwit UI at http://localhost:7280 to search traces.

Here are a couple of query examples:

service_name:quickwit AND events.event_attributes.level:INFO
span_duration_millis:>100
resource_attributes.service.version:v0.8.1
service_name:quickwit

That's it! You can level up with the following tutorials to discover all Quickwit features.

Start Quickwit and Jaeger

Searching and view traces in Jaeger

Searching traces with Quickwit UI

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