Jaeger v2 rebuilt its entire core on OpenTelemetry Collector. Combined with OTel's new GenAI semantic conventions — agent spans, model spans, MCP traces — teams can now get real distributed tracing across AI agent workflows for the first time.
When you run a single AI agent, debugging is straightforward. You read the log, you see what happened. When you run five agents in a swarm, each spawning its own tool calls and producing its own outpu