Requirement

As a developer at a site that prefers to use Azure Platform Services where available,
I want to use Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) as a storage backend for Jaeger
So that I can have a decent UX for exploring traces instead of the Azure Portal

Problem

Nobody on the platform engineering team has an appetite for maintaining a Cassandra or Elasticsearch cluster, so we are currently writing traces to Azure Monitor but I'm leading an effort to switch to Azure Data Explorer. There's a reasonable UX for logs, and metrics can be surfaced in Grafana, but there's basically nothing for traces. If Jaeger supported ADX as a persistence backend, I could persuade people that we could use the Jaeger UI.

Proposal

Reach out to the Azure Data Explorer team and get them to contribute a storage backend or plug-in? They seem pretty keen on creating integrations.

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