openzipkin/zipkin

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

Nestor

@nnarvaez

Hello, I am trying to make POC with zipkin and I need install in a server, my question is How can I get the Hardware requeriments CPU, RAM, storage for the zipkin server?
Thanks in advance

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logicatmidod

@logicatmidod

Hi I want to use zipkin but not able to find how can I secure or provide username password screen for the zipkin server any references/help is appreciated

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smlobo

@smlobo

Hi! I'm relatively new to Zipkin, and I wanted to create a simple protobuf example. I had trouble modifying https://github.com/openzipkin/brave-example to upload spans in the protobuf format.
Golang seemed more protobuf encoder friendly, so I created a small example application along the lines of "brave-example", "zipkin-php-example", & "zipkin-js-example". If anyone is interested or has feedback, the repo is here: https://github.com/smlobo/zipkin-go-example

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chris vale

@crispywalrus

Hi, the release build for zipkin-finagle is failing with a permissions error here https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-finagle/runs/2452473164 . I don’t have access to anything but the repo (no org secrets etc.) could I get someone with admin powers and secrets access fix the repo please. I’m helping out a contributor and need help.

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Kevin Kuriakose

@Technohacker

I was typing up a question here about how I could include Zipkin as part of my Spring Boot project as a subproject (Gradle) without using EnableZipkinServer, Docker Compose or the self-contained jar since the compose setup has problems with live-reload and cache sharing, while the self contained jar would've been available with Gradle ideally to avoid unnecessary binaries in the repo. I soon answered my own question after thinking it through, so I wanna document it for archival's sake even if it may be almost obvious to someone more experienced:

Treat Zipkin as an external service, and use Docker Compose to describe your external services. This also includes things like databases, messaging servers and cache servers. Use Docker Compose to ready the infrastructure and let your build tool manage your code outside Docker instead. No custom binaries for your external dependencies, no manual cache management, and as an added bonus, single command infrastructure.

I sure would've loved to grok this earlier so I didn't have to spend so many days trying different options. Ah well, sometimes you learn the hard way xD

jatin gupta

@jatininxs11_twitter

Hey all,
I am using zipkin to trace my http calls ( express nodejs ) and struggling to trace the database requests ( mongoose and sequelize ). Is there any solution available for databases in zipkin-js ??

qxk1989

@qxk1989

hi，all，How to speed up the query traces to 1s in the case of 12T data？

Christian Kosmowski

@ckosmowski

Hi! I tried zipkin today and provided several microservices with tracing. It basically works, ziupkin displays spans from each microservice, but they are completely distinct. Zipkin does not make a connection between services. I'm sure i am missing any configuration on how zipkin is able to connect the services.

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Arun Gopalpuri

@arun0009

What should one annotate on span? Whats the difference between tags and annotate? Any link to documentation to help me understand? Thanks!

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AlejandroUPC

@AlejandroUPC

Hi everybody, just joined!

I have a question, let's say I have an API and I want to trace all the incomming request and all the internal functions that the API processes, for example I recive a request to an endpoint '/do_foo/' and it calls he function 'do_bar', I would like to have a span in there and I do not manage to make it even using the python decorator @zipkin_span with the same service_name in the function 'do_bar', is it even possible to track internal calls inside a zipkin trace?

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José Carlos Chávez

@jcchavezs

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Suhaib Ahmed

@suhaaiib_twitter

Hello everybody, just joined. I was trying to use Zipkin for a few days in my Ruby on Rails app and I am using::Logger::Formatter.new as the formatter. How do I print the trace id, span id etc in the application logs ?

In my Java App it automatically comes as "[vmsservice,c6b162b6763740b6,93228fedf49d17c2,true]" as part of the log.

Андрей Калинин

@kalinin81

Hi. Is there the “best practice” for “online” switch (without restarting traced module) “on/off” tracing?

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Halil Onur Çeçen

@onurccn

Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible to index tags field with elasticsearch storage. Anyone tried something similar? I'm trying to aggregate tags.http.path field using kibana.

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haixinke

@haixinke

hi all, why zipkin server always fgc,and old region 100%

cpu is very high too

collect from kafka,store in es

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i found if number of data in kafka is very huge，zipkin-server would occur above i mentioned

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koelschkellerkind

@koelschkellerkind

Hi, I'm using Zipkin with Elasticsearch. My Problem is that the Zipkin UI doesn't display all traces. I've generated 1000 traces but only 782 of them are visible. Furthermore, the number of spans for the traces in the UI is incorrect. But if I click on the 'show' button for one trace, the trace is displayed with the correct number of spans. I also checked the /trace endpoint. It's possible to fetch a single trace, but if I want to fetch all 1000 traces, I only get the 782 traces with an incorrect number of spans. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

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Naveen Gupta

@naveen-gupta-github

can someone help me set-up zipkin with Cassandra ? I'm quite lost figuring out how to go about it.

koelschkellerkind

@koelschkellerkind

Hi, is there a limit how many traces I can fetch via the /traces endpoint? Because most what I can get is around 3.88 megabytes.

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Manish Sharma

@manishsarswa

I want to trace redis queries using open census and zipkin in golang, can anyone please suggest me any blog ?

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@naveen-gupta-github are you done with cassandra zipkin setup?

Cecilia1523

@Cecilia1523

Hello，I want to use zipkin to monitor the operation of each api in my springboot project, and I need to trigger pageduty when the delay is too high, is it okay? In addition, can the data in zipkin be displayed in Prometheus or Grafana?

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Alfian Aulia Firdaus

@alfianaf

Hello, is there any way to change zipkin default port from the zipkin server jar file? thanks in advance

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Naveen Gupta

@naveen-gupta-github

@naveen-gupta-github are you done with cassandra zipkin setup?

Yes.

Naveen Gupta

@naveen-gupta-github

hello,

trying to run zipkin on ec2 centos instance & getting

"Armeria server failed to start"

Caused by: io.netty.channel.unix.Errors$NativeIoException: bind(..) failed: Address already in use

I'd like to know which address it wants to use. zipkin is running fine on our other servers with the same version.

any help is much appreciated.

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Bloated Yaks

@BloatedYaks_twitter

Anyone who may be using the zipkin GCP trace integration. We're running into a permissions error and are trying to find the root cause. The error is:
"java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: com.linecorp.armeria.common.grpc.protocol.ArmeriaStatusException: The caller does not have permission"
The service account used has the role "Cloud Trace Agent", so it should have access. However, still getting the error. Appreciate any help!

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Manish Sharma

@manishsarswa

@naveen-gupta-github can you please help.me with zipkin cassandra setup

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Cihad Güzel

@guzelcihad

Hi guys, I ran the docker image of zipkin with port mapping option. I look the logs of the image, it is running. But i can not be able to access zipkin ui. Can you help me to figure it out why it happens?

iinuwa

@iinuwa:matrix.org

[m]

what command did you run?

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and what error do you get when navigating to http://localhost:9411/zipkin/ ?

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(assuming you're running on a local machine and not a server)

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iinuwa

@iinuwa:matrix.org

[m]

strange. Are you able to access a different image's published port?

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iinuwa

@iinuwa:matrix.org

[m]

seems like a problem with your Docker/network setup then

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what OS are you using?

iinuwa

@iinuwa:matrix.org

[m]

To confirm, localhost refers to the Ubuntu desktop?
A connection reset sounds like a firewall issue. Maybe you can check iptables/firewalld/AppArmor to make sure there aren't any rules blocking you from using the published ports

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Maybe also try: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62432972/getting-connection-reset-when-accessing-running-docker-container

Fahri YARDIMCI

@ffahri

(brave-zipkin java) hey everyone, i know it may not be the best way but are there any solution available for changing current span's remote context (or traceContext). For example: createSpan -> do some operation -> add remote trace context to it ?

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Gerald Quintana

@gquintana

There hasn't been any new commit since January on Zipkin's Github. Is the project dead?

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Alex McCool

@amccool

hi all ---- where can I find docs on using the UI? specifically I need to search for tags, and I cant get the syntax right

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Dharmesh Ajudiya

@imdharmpatel_twitter

Hi all --
I implement zipkin for Microservice and use storage type as elasticsearch
now I want to use same zipkin for multiple accelator, so How I can check which log come from which accelator in kibana, seems zipkin have same index for all

Please help me in this.
Thanks in advance

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dubthree

@dubthree

I'm looking to handle B3 headers within an Apigee API Proxy. I don't think I can use any of the existing instrumentation and I was about to roll my own, but I saw this in the readme: "If you end up in a position where you still believe you need a custom model, please contact us before committing to it." It looks like I may be able to use the Apigee Adapter for Envoy for my Kubernetes deployments, but that doesn't meet the non k8s use-cases. Do you have any guidance? This seems like something I can put together pretty quickly as part of an Apigee java callout, but I wan't to check before going down that path due to the warning in the readme.

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