# jaeger
**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** Go | **Source:** https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
## Role
Distributed tracing
## Why it's here
Follows a request across services. The only way to find where latency actually comes from.
## Running it
Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 16686.
```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/jaeger.tar.gz -C ./sources
```