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Tracing Services
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.. _cephadm-tracing:


Jaeger Tracing
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Ceph uses Jaeger as the tracing backend. in order to use tracing, we need to deploy those services.

Further details on tracing in ceph:

`Ceph Tracing documentation <https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/jaegertracing/#jaeger-distributed-tracing/>`_

Deployment
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Jaeger services consist of 3 services:

1. Jaeger Agent

2. Jaeger Collector

3. Jaeger Query

Jaeger requires a database for the traces. we use ElasticSearch (version 6) by default.


To deploy jaeger tracing service, when not using your own ElasticSearch:

#. Deploy jaeger services, with a new elasticsearch container:

    .. prompt:: bash #

        ceph orch apply jaeger


#. Deploy jaeger services, with existing elasticsearch cluster and existing jaeger query (deploy agents and collectors):

     .. prompt:: bash #

        ceph orch apply jaeger --without-query --es_nodes=ip:port,..