Zipkin
Distributed tracing system for latency troubleshooting
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
Zipkin replaces
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