---
title: Jaeger
description: Trace your agent with a local or self-hosted Jaeger OTLP backend.
url: "https://eve.dev/integrations/jaeger"
docs_index: /llms.txt
type: instrumentation
keywords:
  - otel
  - opentelemetry
  - tracing
  - observability
  - local
  - self-hosted
---

> For an index of all documentation, see [/llms.txt](/llms.txt).

Instrumentation integration for eve. Trace your agent with a local or self-hosted Jaeger OTLP backend.

## Install

Add Jaeger instrumentation from eve's registry:

```bash
eve add instrumentation/jaeger
```

## Quick start

Create `agent/instrumentation/jaeger.ts` and point the OTLP exporter at your Jaeger collector:

```ts
// agent/instrumentation/jaeger.ts
import { OTLPHttpProtoTraceExporter } from "@vercel/otel";
import { otelIntegration } from "eve/instrumentation/otel";

export default otelIntegration({
  traceExporter: new OTLPHttpProtoTraceExporter({
    url: "http://localhost:4318/v1/traces",
  }),
});
```

## Configure

Run Jaeger locally with Docker and open the UI at `http://localhost:16686`:

```bash
docker run --rm -p 16686:16686 -p 4318:4318 jaegertracing/jaeger:latest
```

Point the exporter at your collector's OTLP HTTP endpoint when self-hosting. See the [OpenTelemetry guide](/docs/observability/otel) for trace topology and content policy.

[Read the full instrumentation documentation](/docs/observability/otel)

---

For a semantic overview of all documentation, see [/sitemap.md](/sitemap.md)

For an index of all available documentation, see [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)

For agent-facing discovery, including API and MCP surfaces, see [/agents.md](/agents.md)