Jaeger 2 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Jaeger 2 on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

Jaeger is the CNCF-graduated distributed tracing platform — collect spans from your services via OpenTelemetry / Jaeger / Zipkin protocols, index them, and render trace timelines in a web UI to see where each request spent time across microservices. Version 2 is a ground-up rewrite as a collection of OpenTelemetry Collector components, which simplifies deployment and aligns with the OTel standard. The cloudimg image installs the Jaeger v2 all-in-one binary with an embedded Badger key-value store for trace persistence, fronted by nginx with HTTP basic-auth on port 80.

Why Choose cloudimg?

• 24/7 Expert Support with guaranteed 24 hour response. support@cloudimg.co.uk
• Production Ready from Launch Pre-configured, security-patched, validated
• Azure Native Integration Azure Linux Agent, cloud-init, Gen2 Hyper-V, TrustedLaunch

What is Included

• Jaeger v2.x single Go binary at /usr/local/bin/jaeger (from official jaegertracing/jaeger release)
• Embedded Badger KV store at /var/lib/jaeger/badger (non-ephemeral)
• nginx reverse proxy on TCP 80 with basic-auth middleware (per-VM password rotated at first boot)
• jaeger.service running as jaeger:jaeger system user
• OTLP gRPC receiver on TCP 4317 (modern primary path); OTLP HTTP on TCP 4318
• Legacy Jaeger collectors: gRPC 14250, HTTP 14268, UDP 6831
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base with latest security patches
• 24/7 cloudimg support with guaranteed 24 hour response SLA

Recommended Virtual Machine Sizes

• Standard_B2s (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) — dev / small-prod (a few thousand spans/min, days of retention)
• Standard_D2s_v5 (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) — moderate production with Badger backend
• Standard_D4s_v5 (4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM) — production with Elasticsearch / Cassandra backend