Jaeger , the popular open-source distributed tracing platform, has had a successful 9 year history as being one of the first graduated projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). After over 60 releases, Jaeger is celebrating a major milestone with the release of Jaeger v2. This new version is a new architecture for Jaeger components that utilizes OpenTelemetry Collector framework as the base and extends it to implement Jaeger’s unique features.