diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index b234c75081..29c27dde14 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ jobs:
         sudo ./ci/setup_cmake.sh
         sudo ./ci/setup_ci_environment.sh
     - name: run cmake tests (without otlp-exporter)
-      run: ./ci/do_ci.sh cmake.test
+      run: |
+        sudo ./ci/setup_thrift.sh
+        ./ci/do_ci.sh cmake.test
 
   cmake_gcc_48_test:
     name: CMake gcc 4.8
diff --git a/ci/do_ci.sh b/ci/do_ci.sh
index f8bfe4bf96..2e581ea316 100755
--- a/ci/do_ci.sh
+++ b/ci/do_ci.sh
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ if [[ "$1" == "cmake.test" ]]; then
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug  \
         -DWITH_PROMETHEUS=ON \
         -DWITH_ZIPKIN=ON \
+        -DWITH_JAEGER=ON \
         -DWITH_ELASTICSEARCH=ON \
         -DWITH_METRICS_PREVIEW=ON \
         -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-Werror" \
diff --git a/ci/setup_thrift.sh b/ci/setup_thrift.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..03d1a7851d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/setup_thrift.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+export THRIFT_VERSION=0.14.1
+
+if ! type cmake > /dev/null; then
+    #cmake not installed, exiting
+    exit 1
+fi
+export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/
+export INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/
+
+apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
+      libboost-all-dev \
+      libevent-dev \
+      libssl-dev \
+      ninja-build
+
+pushd $BUILD_DIR
+wget https://github.com/apache/thrift/archive/refs/tags/v${THRIFT_VERSION}.tar.gz
+tar -zxvf v${THRIFT_VERSION}.tar.gz
+cd thrift-${THRIFT_VERSION}
+mkdir -p out
+pushd out
+cmake -G Ninja .. \
+    -DBUILD_COMPILER=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_CPP=ON \
+    -DBUILD_LIBRARIES=ON \
+    -DBUILD_NODEJS=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_PYTHON=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_JAVASCRIPT=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_C_GLIB=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_JAVA=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_TUTORIALS=OFF \
+    ..
+
+ninja -j $(nproc)
+ninja install
+popd
+popd
diff --git a/exporters/jaeger/src/thrift_sender.h b/exporters/jaeger/src/thrift_sender.h
index c6467baf51..23f0d3d5f3 100644
--- a/exporters/jaeger/src/thrift_sender.h
+++ b/exporters/jaeger/src/thrift_sender.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
-#include <agent.h>
+#include <Agent.h>
 #include <atomic>
 #include <memory>
 #include <mutex>
diff --git a/exporters/jaeger/src/udp_transport.h b/exporters/jaeger/src/udp_transport.h
index 96411e0681..b75987e4a5 100644
--- a/exporters/jaeger/src/udp_transport.h
+++ b/exporters/jaeger/src/udp_transport.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include "TUDPTransport.h"
 #include "transport.h"
 
-#include <agent.h>
+#include <Agent.h>
 #include <thrift/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.h>
 #include <thrift/protocol/TCompactProtocol.h>
 #include <thrift/protocol/TProtocol.h>