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Zipkin

Distributed tracing system by Twitter

Zipkin is an open-source distributed tracing system originally developed by Twitter based on the Google Dapper paper. It helps gather timing data to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures, with support for multiple storage backends and a wide range of programming languages.

Fonctionnalités

Trace collection and lookup
Service dependency graphs
Timing data visualization
Multiple storage backends
Customizable sampling
REST API
Docker deployment
Wide language support
Istio integration
Spring Cloud Sleuth integration

Avantages

  • + Simple and easy to deploy
  • + Mature and battle-tested
  • + Great Spring ecosystem integration
  • + Multiple storage options
  • + Language agnostic

Inconvénients

  • Less feature-rich than Jaeger
  • UI less modern than alternatives
  • Limited advanced sampling
  • Smaller community than Jaeger