--- title: How to Trace Multi-Agent AI Swarms with Jaeger v2 description: A practical guide to adding distributed tracing to multi-agent AI swarms using Jaeger v2 and OpenTelemetry. Covers setting up Jaeger v2 with Docker (including... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-trace-multi-agent-ai-swarms-with-jaeger-v2-psaaecjyj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Trace Multi-Agent AI Swarms with Jaeger v2 | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to adding distributed tracing to multi-agent AI swarms using Jaeger v2 and OpenTelemetry. 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Covers setting up Jaeger v2 with Docker (including persistent Badger storage and permission fixes), wiring Claude Code lifecycle hooks to emit spans via Python, and a span hierarchy model that captures subagent activity, token counts, and tool calls. Includes lessons learned: correlating pre/post tool events without a shared ID, persisting span context across subprocess invocations via temp files, flush timeout tuning, and a full environment variable reference. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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