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Zipkin

Distributed tracing system for latency troubleshooting

Monitoring & Status ★ 17.5k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system that gathers timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. It collects, stores, and visualizes spans across requests.

Key features

  • Span collection and storage
  • Latency visualization
  • Dependency diagrams
  • Multiple storage backends

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Simple to run
  • Long-established project

Trade-offs

  • Tracing only
  • Less active than Jaeger

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