[Feature]: GenAI integration with Jaeger

[yurishkuro]

Summary

GenAI can provide powerful capabilities for automatic analysis of tracing data.

There can be multiple product functions, with increasing order of complexity:

1. Free form question about a single trace. Easiest, needs chat infra in the UI.
   - Ability to use user-provided skills (nice to have). Requires agentic loop.
2. Automated analysis of a trace. Needs agentic loop & prompt tuning on our side
3. Free form search query. Needs ability act on the UI elements from agentic loop, and prompt tuning.
4. Free form investigation. Ultimate, investigation agent, needs lots of prompting.

Everything beyond (1) involves prompt engineering and the only non-anecdotal way to evaluate the prompts is with benchmarks.

Directional design - "bring your own agent".

Resources:

• Jaeger MCP server
• RedHat MCP Gateway for security
• Bifrost LLM gateway

[Parship12]

This will be an awesome feature.
Reading the first point, one question came to my mind, how do you see the trace data being exposed to the model? would this be a summary generated by jaeger or closer to raw trace JSON with some filtering?

[yurishkuro]

@Parship12 I think this is technically a solved issue already because traceloop already has an MCP server that can read Jaeger data and they already made a decision in which format to return the trace back to the agent.

[yurishkuro]

https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/blob/main/docs/adr/002-mcp-server.md