openzipkin/zipkin

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

JBelova

@JBelova

I created a span with name 'A' in one thread. Do some thing in scope. Other thread propagate(tracer.joinSpan) that trace 'A'. Do some thing in scope too. I can finish span only in second thread. How can I show in zipkin UI span 'A' with duration from bouth processes? Now in json view i have two spans with same name and id, but with different duration. And one of them is shared. In zipkin Ui I can see only duration from first span. While duration of all trace is bigger.

itsmjeu

@itsmjeu

Hi Guys, I'm interested in help the project, contributing for translations

I can help in Portuguese, maybe French and Dutch as well

I sent a message to Jorge and he redirected me to here

José Carlos Chávez

@jcchavezs

Awesome @itsmjeu I think the first thing to do is to start with a github issue?

itsmjeu

@itsmjeu

Ok I will need some help on that maybe later because is my first time I'm contributing to a public project

azeemdin

@azeemdin

hi, i m new to zipkin working on a POC. I started zipkin as below

java -DSTORAGE_TYPE=elasticsearch -DES_HOSTS=http://localhost:9200 -DSEARCH_ENABLED=true -jar zipkin-server-2.22.0-exec.jar --logging.level.zipkin2=DEBUG

Then I posted data via rest API (http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans)

[
{
"id": "352bff9a74ca9ad2",
"traceId": "5af7183fb1d4cf5f",
"parentId": "6b221d5bc9e6496c",
"name": "get /api",
"timestamp": 1556604172355737,
"duration": 1431,
"kind": "SERVER",
"localEndpoint": {
"serviceName": "backend",
"ipv4": "192.168.99.1",
"port": 3306
},
"remoteEndpoint": {
"ipv4": "172.19.0.2",
"port": 58648
},
"tags": {
"http.method": "GET",
"http.path": "/api"
}
}
]

now I am able to search trace id: 5af7183fb1d4cf5f
but if i use "find a trace" option by providing service name as : backend it does not work. Am I missing a point here?

Adrian Cole

@adriancole

you are sending a single-span trace?

azeemdin

@azeemdin

yesm i got this example from the swagger (https://zipkin.io/zipkin-api/#/default/post_spans)

also tried with another example with multiple traces in a span

Adrian Cole

@adriancole

can you check browser to see if you are hitting this? openzipkin/zipkin#3211

anyway it is better to use real data we created example projects to help get started https://github.com/openzipkin/brave-example

azeemdin

@azeemdin

sample.json

Thanks Andrian, I will check the links u provided

by the way I am unable to get it directly via API
http://127.0.0.1:9411/zipkin/api/v2/spans?serviceName=backend
it returns empty array

Adrian Cole

@adriancole

-DSTORAGE_TYPE=elasticsearch is incorrect these are supposed to be environment variables

unix style

ex. STORAGE_TYPE=elasticsearch java -jar...

azeemdin

@azeemdin

it is actually working with me, i am able to save data in elasticsearch, i was doing a very stupid mistake. In example timestamp was very old, i did't updated that. Just tried with new sample and it is working f9. Really sorry to disturb u for my stupid mistake

sample.json

update sample

thanks for your concern and support

Adrian Cole

@adriancole

it isn't stupid mistake, it is just a problem with static data. don't know a better way with the swagger ui..

glad you found it though. fwiw this README shows other examples https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/tree/master/zipkin-lens/testdata

azeemdin

@azeemdin

sure, i will do that appreciate your time and support

Adrian Cole

@adriancole

:thumbsup: and good luck

Adrian Cole

@adriancole

@/all #Zipkin 2.22.1 starts publishing multi-architecture #Docker images, also to GitHub Container Registry.

Using ghcr.io avoids the new Docker Hub rate limits that apply today.

Ex:

docker run -d -p 9411:9411 ghcr.io/openzipkin/zipkin-slim

https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/releases/tag/2.22.1

Jorge Tovar

@jorgetovar_gitlab

hello guys. How do you secure your Zipkin instance in production?

3 replies

Varuna Lekamwasam

@varuna

hi i'm trying to run zipkin 2.22 latest with elasticsearch 5.5.2 just started the server, zipkin index is not created, ran an empty query, zipkin throws a exception "request [/_template/zipkin:span_template] contains unrecognized parameter: [include_type_name]". Is there a base elasticsearch version supported by zipkin latest?

5 replies

jackschaufele

@jschaufele

I am new to microservices and am working on my first project - I happened on to zipkin , jaeger etc as solution to pull together debugging information rather than having multiple viewports into each service - I realize zipkin is mainly used for tracing / timing etc - but is it used to pull together real-time "console logs" ? If I am going down the wrong path I would appreciate any direction on how best to look at multiple microservice consoles , thanks in advance

3 replies

Adrian Cole

@adriancole

french speaking folks.. if you want to see Zipkin in French, please click thumbsup on this openzipkin/zipkin#3289

Beniamin Kalinowski

@BeniaminK

Hi, I want to write an instrumentation for the Snowflake Data Cloud. Currently I'm checking whether I should use Brave or Wingtips for start. Any suggestions?

1 reply

xingwang.ma

@979163895

hi, I want build zipkin-server project，but build faild

Could you give me some advice

java version 1.8

zipkin version 2.22.3-SNAPSHOT

xingwang.ma

@979163895

34 replies

Varuna Lekamwasam

@varuna

i'm running zipkin-dependencies with a elasticsearch backend. thee ES backend is SSL protected, i tried setting ES_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true, didn't work. I tried setting a correct truststore with -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=truststore.jks VM args still nothing. How can we do this?

9 replies

Varuna Lekamwasam

@varuna

When using ES as the backend you need to make sure that ES configuration action.autocreate_index: "zipkin:*" to be included. in certain enterprise deployments of ES would block this auto index creation. if its blocked you need to use a mechanism to create indexes every day zipkin:span-2020-11-11 zipkin:dependencies-2020-11-11 like wise. the over head of manually injecting this very cumber some. I believe we need to add this to the documentation. One more thing on using ES back end, any idea on how long should we retain data for? can we add a configuration to remove old data say after 90days we'll flush old data?

17 replies

Mani R

@mrajah-twttr

are there any standard span tags open zipkin recommends . eg for indicating an error that is well understood by many tools to provide richer features?

21 replies

data_dream

@data_decode_twitter

what does zipkin mean by it stores data in-memory here https://zipkin.io/pages/extensions_choices.html
Do they have builtin in-memory database within their docker image or they write data within their file structure by in-memory ?
If no default built-in database, when is it recommended to use a database like MySQL / Cassandra / Elasticsearch ?
Thank you

6 replies

Mani R

@mrajah-twttr

is there a best practice around missing server side instrumentation? does ZIPkin or other related tools use any fields on client span to label the span's service name and not use the client service name?

19 replies

Prasad CH

@prasad-1210_gitlab

ello Im having trouble getting spring cloud sleuth work with unirest. Can someone help please?

According to https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-sleuth/reference/html/#synchronous-rest-template need to register Unirest as Bean so that sleuth can intercept request and inject trace info.

Any help on how to get this working?

1 reply

Simon Dean

@msmsimondean

Hi. I seem to be having trouble searching for tags in the UI of the latest version of Zipkin. No what tags I add to a search, the UI or Zipkin Server seems to ignore them and return all traces. I've tried reverting back to version 2.20.2 and it works fine in that version. I'm using Elasticsearch storage though I'm not sure that's related to the issue. I've tried debugging Zipkin Server and the tags don't get passed to the Elasticsearch storage implementation when performing a search

9 replies

Jorg Heymans

@jorgheymans

Fizii Q

@qfizii_gitlab

yow can I attach an extra baggage field to current span/scope? If I add baggage field like this:

Optional.ofNullable(BaggageField.getByName("some-header"))
        .ifPresent(field -> field.updateValue("some-value"));

then only downstream spans see the value. How can I make it so that current MDC has that value, and revert when current span/scope closes?

10 replies

Oskar Austegard

@oaustegard

Noob question - more of a WSL2 issue than a Zipkin issue admittedly, but perchance an opportunity to improve the documentation:
When attempting to run the self-contained executable jar via the two-liner on the website I end up with the following error (from the debug log):

curl -fL -o zipkin.jar https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/zipkin/zipkin-server/2.22.2/zipkin-server-2.22.2-exec.jar
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0Warning: Failed to create the file zipkin.jar: Permission denied
  0 56.8M    0  1362    0     0  35842      0  0:27:42 --:--:--  0:27:42 35842
curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 1362)

Any suggestions as to what's needed to allow the download?

2 replies

Oskar Austegard

@oaustegard

Is there a "demo" json file anywhere that can be uploaded to a zipkin server to demo the UX?

2 replies

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