# AWS X-Ray vs Jaeger

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** AWS X-Ray

| Attribute | AWS X-Ray | Jaeger |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 72.1 (63% (medium)) | 56.3 (38% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1,141 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 23,297 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals is an APM solution providing automatic instrumentation and observability for distributed applications across AWS services with prebuilt dashboards, service mapping, and AI-powered troubleshooting. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"What is AWS X-Ray?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"AWS X-Ray offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"Is AWS X-Ray free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to AWS X-Ray. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"What platforms does AWS X-Ray support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for AWS X-Ray, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/xray/","question":"Can AWS X-Ray be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for AWS X-Ray. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as AWS X-Ray not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/trust-center/?nc1=f_cc","question":"What security certifications does AWS X-Ray have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"AWS X-Ray is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_ec2","question":"Where is AWS X-Ray available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A backend that collects execution traces from microservice-based applications and provides analysis tools to understand system behavior and diagnose issues. Teams use it to track how requests move through their services and identify where delays or errors occur. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://www.jaegertracing.io","question":"What is Jaeger?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Jaeger is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.jaegertracing.io","question":"Is Jaeger free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Jaeger. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.jaegertracing.io","question":"What platforms does Jaeger support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Jaeger can be deployed on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.jaegertracing.io","question":"Can Jaeger be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Jaeger, including Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Badger, Kafka and Memory. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.jaegertracing.io","question":"What does Jaeger integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Jaeger is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger","question":"Is Jaeger open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-based monitoring and observability service that centralizes performance data from AWS services and on-premises applications, providing dashboards, automated insights, and distributed tracing capabilities through OpenTelemetry integration. | Jaeger is an open-source tracing platform that processes and analyzes telemetry data from distributed systems, helping teams identify performance issues, diagnose root causes, and understand service dependencies. It provides search, visualization, and aggregation of traces across complex application architectures. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","trace_role":"backend","service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","trace_search":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"}` | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"tail_sampling":true,"storage_backend":"Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Cassandra, Badger, ClickHouse, Kafka (buffer), memory"}` |
| integrations.count | - | 7 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Badger"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Memory"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free tier","features":["3 Custom Dashboards","Automatic Dashboards","Free metrics from AWS services"],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"custom_dashboards":"3","automatic_dashboards":"unlimited","metrics_per_dashboard":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion","features":["15 months storage included","No API call charges","No per-metric-series charges"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"free":false,"name":"PromQL query API","features":["Console/dashboard queries free"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"samples scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}]},{"free":false,"name":"Container Insights with OpenTelemetry","features":["EKS cluster metrics at 30-second granularity","Kubernetes pod/node labels","PromQL querying"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.08,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Usage-based pricing: $0.50/GB for OpenTelemetry metrics, $0.08/GB for Container Insights, $0.01 per million query samples.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T10:31:43.005Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"samples scanned","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jaegertracing.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:24:51.164Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 28 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.22.0","date":"2026-10-06T14:27:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.22.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.21.0","date":"2026-09-14T23:05:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.21.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.20.0","date":"2026-07-20T03:34:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.19.0","date":"2026-06-03T14:25:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.18.0","date":"2026-05-13T16:01:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.17.0","date":"2026-03-30T20:07:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.16.0","date":"2026-03-07T12:49:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.1","date":"2026-02-09T00:17:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.15.0","date":"2026-02-06T19:06:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.14.1","date":"2026-01-02T18:36:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.14.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.14.0","date":"2026-01-02T02:29:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.76.0","date":"2025-12-03T16:31:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.76.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.75.0","date":"2025-11-18T18:23:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.75.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.74.0","date":"2025-10-02T12:06:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.74.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.73.0","date":"2025-09-03T18:48:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.73.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.72.0","date":"2025-08-06T19:05:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.72.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.71.0","date":"2025-07-05T00:57:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.71.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.70.0","date":"2025-06-10T18:43:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.70.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.69.0","date":"2025-05-09T21:55:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.69.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v1.68.0","date":"2025-04-05T10:21:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.68.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"PCI-DSS","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA/HITECH","status":"active"},{"name":"FedRAMP","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 8.6 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/security/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fjaegertracing%2Fjaeger&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` |

## Capabilities (Distributed Tracing Tools)

| Capability | AWS X-Ray | Jaeger |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Trace role | Trace backend / store | SaaS platform |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTLP ingest | OTel-native |
| Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP) | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Trace search / filter by attributes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service dependency graph | ✓ | ✓ |
| High-cardinality attribute exploration | - | - |
| **Sampling** |  |  |
| Tail-based / dynamic sampling | - | ✓ |
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | Agent-based | - |
| **Correlation** |  |  |
| Correlate traces with metrics/logs | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage backend | - | Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Cassandra, Badger, ClickHouse, Kafka (buffer), memory |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:50:19.327Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*