openzipkin / zipkin

Application’s need to be “instrumented” to report trace data to Zipkin. This usually means configuration of a tracer or instrumentation library. The most popular ways to report data to Zipkin are via http or Kafka, though many other options exist, such as Apache ActiveMQ, gRPC and RabbitMQ. The data served to the UI is stored in-memory, or persistently with a supported backend such as Apache Cassandra or Elasticsearch.

Quick-start
The quickest way to get started is to fetch the latest released server as a self-contained executable jar. Note that the Zipkin server requires minimum JRE 8. For example:

curl -sSL https://zipkin.io/quickstart.sh | bash -s
java -jar zipkin.jar
You can also start Zipkin via Docker.

docker run -d -p 9411:9411 openzipkin/zipkin
Once the server is running, you can view traces with the Zipkin UI at http://your_host:9411/zipkin/.

If your applications aren’t sending traces, yet, configure them with Zipkin instrumentation or try one of our examples.

Check out the zipkin-server documentation for configuration details, or Docker examples for how to use docker-compose.

Zipkin Slim
The slim build of Zipkin is smaller and starts faster. It supports in-memory and Elasticsearch storage, but doesn’t support messaging transports like Kafka or RabbitMQ. If these constraints match your needs, you can try slim like below:

Running via Java:

curl -sSL https://zipkin.io/quickstart.sh | bash -s io.zipkin:zipkin-server:LATEST:slim zipkin.jar
java -jar zipkin.jar
Running via Docker:

docker run -d -p 9411:9411 openzipkin/zipkin