Zipkin

Zipkin is an open-source distributed tracing platform designed to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze the performance of microservices-based and distributed applications. It helps organizations gain end-to-end visibility into request lifecycles, identify latency issues, and debug complex service interactions by collecting and visualizing trace data across multiple services.

Features of Zipkin:

• End-to-end distributed tracing for microservices and distributed applications.
• Visualization of request timelines, latency, and service dependency relationships.
• Support for OpenTelemetry, Brave, and other tracing instrumentation libraries.
• Lightweight and scalable architecture suitable for cloud-native environments.
• Web-based user interface for trace search, analysis, and troubleshooting.

To deploy Zipkin using the executable JAR, run the following commands:

 
 $ cd /opt
 $ sudo java -jar /opt/zipkin.jar
 

Access the Zipkin Web Interface:

http://your-ip:9411

Disclaimer: Zipkin is provided under applicable open-source licenses and is distributed “as is.” Users are responsible for proper configuration, storage backend selection, security, and operational monitoring. While Zipkin provides effective distributed tracing capabilities, correct application instrumentation and deployment configuration are essential for reliable performance monitoring and analysis.