-name:"TracinginGitLab"# The name of the feature to be deprecated
announcement_milestone:"14.7"# The milestone when this feature was first announced as deprecated.
announcement_date:"2022-01-22"# The date of the milestone release when this feature was first announced as deprecated. This should almost always be the 22nd of a month (YYYY-MM-22), unless you did an out of band blog post.
removal_milestone:"15.0"# The milestone when this feature is planned to be removed
removal_date:"2022-05-22"# The date of the milestone release when this feature was first announced as deprecated. This should almost always be the 22nd of a month (YYYY-MM-22), unless you did an out of band blog post.
breaking_change:true# If this deprecation is a breaking change, set this value to true
body:|# Do not modify this line, instead modify the lines below.
Tracing in GitLab is an integration with Jaeger, an open-source end-to-end distributed tracing system. GitLab users can navigate to their Jaeger instance to gain insight into the performance of a deployed application, tracking each function or microservice that handles a given request. Tracing in GitLab is deprecated in GitLab 14.7, and scheduled for removal in 15.0. To track work on a possible replacement, see the issue for [Opstrace integration with GitLab](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/6976).
# The following items are not published on the docs page, but may be used in the future.
stage:Monitor# (optional - may be required in the future) String value of the stage that the feature was created in. e.g., Growth
tiers:[Free]# (optional - may be required in the future) An array of tiers that the feature is available in currently. e.g., [Free, Silver, Gold, Core, Premium, Ultimate]
issue_url:https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346540# (optional) This is a link to the deprecation issue in GitLab
documentation_url:https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/operations/tracing.html#tracing# (optional) This is a link to the current documentation page
image_url:# (optional) This is a link to a thumbnail image depicting the feature
video_url:# (optional) Use the youtube thumbnail URL with the structure of https://img.youtube.com/vi/UNIQUEID/hqdefault.jpg
@@ -327,3 +327,9 @@ and can interfere with object storage development.
It is now considered deprecated, and will be removed in GitLab 15.0.
Planned removal milestone: 15.0 (2021-06-22)
### Tracing in GitLab
Tracing in GitLab is an integration with Jaeger, an open-source end-to-end distributed tracing system. GitLab users can navigate to their Jaeger instance to gain insight into the performance of a deployed application, tracking each function or microservice that handles a given request. Tracing in GitLab is deprecated in GitLab 14.7, and scheduled for removal in 15.0. To track work on a possible replacement, see the issue for [Opstrace integration with GitLab](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/6976).
