Explore the fundamentals of Jaeger, the world's most popular open-source distributed tracing system, in this informative lightning talk. Learn about Jaeger's architecture, installation, and configuration in a Kubernetes cluster. Discover the major components of Jaeger and their responsibilities, backend options, and considerations for building a production cluster. Gain insights into key Jaeger-specific metrics and operational concerns. Understand the concepts of traces, deploying, backend setup, sampling, and monitoring. Access valuable resources to further your knowledge of this essential tool for distributed system observability.