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Tracing: support jaeger-agent tracer

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#15,429 opened on Mar 11, 2021

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Description

Title: One line description When we used envoy and jaeger together, we found that envoy does not support sending data directly to jaeger-agent. Description:

Describe the the desired behavior, what scenario it enables and how it would be used.

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Any extra documentation required to understand the issue. https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-client-cpp https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.22/architecture/

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Inspect the existing tracing implementation in Envoy and the Jaeger client library to understand how to integrate the jaeger agent tracer. Follow the architecture documentation and implement the necessary changes.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
networkingobservability
Issue type
Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
C++NetworkingTracing
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35