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CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

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Open beginner issues: 4
Indexed issues: 384
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Merged PRs (30d): 93

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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384 open issues indexed

[Feature]: Add an optional list of readIndexPrefix for es rollover init to support reading from multiple indices Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9558 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: get_critical_path MCP tool corrupts trace offsets when a span has an unset (zero) StartTimestamp Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9548 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Bug]: jaeger-anonymizer writes an empty UI trace when --trace-id is not spelled the way TraceID.String() prints it Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9543 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Bug]: jaeger-anonymizer exits before writing the UI trace file when --max-spans-count is reached Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9542 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Build the backward-compatibility baseline from the latest release instead of main Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9537 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Proposal: quality-first policy for duplicate PRs Open

governance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9536 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Bug]: SamplingStore silently swallows write errors in InsertThroughput and InsertProbabilitiesAndQPS Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9532 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
[Bug]: search_traces Drops Sub-Second Precision from start_time Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9529 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[Bug]: es-rollover lookback with --unit-count of 0 or less removes every index from the read alias Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9527 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
[Bug]: get_critical_path MCP tool produces invalid uint64 offset values due to unsigned underflow Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9519 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2026
[Bug]: Missing delimiter when concatenating ACP prompt blocks in Gemini AI sidecar fuses text and trace IDs Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9510 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
[Feature]: Add analyze-critical-path built-in skill to MCP tools Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9496 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Structured filter refuses portable case classes, which RFC 0005 §5.3 does not Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9483 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2026
ES/OS filter refuses most built-in fields although the schema indexes them Open

good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9474 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
ES/OS filter refuses the built-in field span.kind, though the value is indexed and queryable Open

good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9473 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
ES/OS filter refuses ordered comparison on built-in text fields, which RFC 0005 defines lexicographically Open

good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9472 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Cassandra dependencies_v2 time bucket width is hardcoded to 24h Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9470 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Badger span writer hardcodes protobuf encoding, no way to configure JSON Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9469 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
ES sampling index rotation ignores remote_read_clusters Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9468 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
[Bug]: es-rollover lookback treats a misspelled --unit as seconds and removes indices from the read alias Open

area/storage bug storage/elasticsearch

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9439 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 30, 2026
[Bug]: Elasticsearch service-operation IDs collide across field boundaries Open

area/storage bug storage/elasticsearch

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9438 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
[Bug]: ArchiveTrace rewrites traces found only in archive storage Open

area/storage bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9390 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Elasticsearch data stream `@timestamp` carries microsecond precision, not OTLP nanoseconds Open

area/storage documentation storage/elasticsearch

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9374 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2026
[Feature]: Need support for pagination in api/v3/traces endpoint Open

changelog:new-feature enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9369 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
[Bug]:traceStartTime ignores spans with exactly 0 timestamp in get_critical_path Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9339 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2026
[Feature]: Agents skip skills because the telemetry tools appear sufficient Open

feature vote

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9336 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: search_traces describes with_errors as trace-scoped but the filter is span-scoped Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9334 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: MCP tracing middleware leaves span status `Unset` on failed `tools/call`, so tool failures are invisible to error queries Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9332 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
SpanDetail output schema is serialised twice, 13% of the MCP tool surface Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9330 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Bug]: search_traces gives no truncation signal and silently clamps search_depth Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9319 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
[Bug]: read_skill serves YAML front matter to the agent, 26% of the skill payload Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9317 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
RFC 0015 §7: measured answers to open questions 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on Elasticsearch Open

area/storage storage/elasticsearch

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9311 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
[Bug]: `jaeger-remote-storage status` always exits 1: health endpoint returns 204, status command expects 200 Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9295 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[Bug]: [mcp] read_skill returns the skill body twice, in two different encodings Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9290 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
[Bug]: [ai-sidecar] Tool results are double-wrapped in raw_output, so the AG-UI gateway never flattens them Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9289 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
[Bug]: convertMapToKeyValueList emits KeyValue entries with nil Value for Empty-typed span attributes, silently dropping them from gRPC search queries Open

area/storage bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9285 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
[Bug]: Concurrent calls to safeexpvar.SetInt can panic with "Reuse of exported var name Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9282 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
[Bug]: ClickHouse trace_id_timestamps_mv calculates trace end time as max(start_time) instead of start_time + duration Open

area/storage bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9278 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 10, 2026
[Bug]: jaeger-es-rollover index Settings should accept any type Open

area/storage bug storage/elasticsearch

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9251 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
[Feature]: Limit active pull requests per issue Open

enhancement feature vote

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9250 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
[Feature]: Trace fixtures and real E2E coverage for the built-in skills Open

changelog:new-feature enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9247 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Investigate the pre-existing one-node OTel Collector DaemonSet CrashLoop Open

area/otel bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9243 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2026
[Bug]: Reject inverted/zero time range in apiv2 gRPC GetDependencies (end_time ≤ start_time) Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9237 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
[Bug]: Badger index keys concatenate fields without a delimiter, so different tag/operation values can collide Open

area/storage bug storage/badger

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9222 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 4, 2026
[Feature]: AI gateway — one MCP server for both mounts, reap shared-endpoint sessions, decouple UI tools from enable_mcp Open

changelog:new-feature enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9215 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Span events are returned sorted by name, losing chronological order Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9212 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
[Feature]: [AI Sidecar] Explicitly add opentelemetry-api dependency and enhance function call argument validation Open

area/otel changelog:new-feature enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9207 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 2, 2026
[Bug]: ClickHouse ignores the error=true search convention, error filters return nothing Open

area/storage bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9184 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
[Bug]: get_trace_topology may produce misleading topology when span-count limit truncates intermediate spans Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9178 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
AI Assistant `search_traces` tool silently overwrites user-provided `error` attribute when `with_errors` is true Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jaegertracing/jaeger#9176 · Opened Aug 1, 2026

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