Jaeger vs Pingdom
Thinking of swapping Pingdom for the open-source Jaeger? Here’s the honest trade-off.
20k Go Apache-2.0 1 month ago
What you give up vs Pingdom
- Tracing only; no metrics or log aggregation built in
- Production deployments require Cassandra or Elasticsearch for storage at scale
- UI is functional but less polished than commercial APM products
What you gain
- • Full data ownership — self-host Jaeger on your own infrastructure.
- • No per-seat SaaS bill (Pingdom: check-count pricing).
- • Open-source code you can audit and extend (Apache-2.0).