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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.
Funktionen
✓ 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
Vorteile
- + Simple and easy to deploy
- + Mature and battle-tested
- + Great Spring ecosystem integration
- + Multiple storage options
- + Language agnostic
Nachteile
- − Less feature-rich than Jaeger
- − UI less modern than alternatives
- − Limited advanced sampling
- − Smaller community than Jaeger