
Zipkin alternatives
Zipkin is an open-source tracker that gathers timing data for troubleshooting latency problems in microservices. It provides various solutions like distributed tracing log and graphical chart representation.
The software supports multiple languages and helps in building images and launching pre-built images. Zipkin is a single process tracker that includes the user-interface, API, collector, storage collector, and storage.
The working of the software is simple, as the system receives a request, this Java-based software tracks it throughout the system. It assigns a specific identity to each request that goes along with it to the micro-service, which is attached to a Zipkin library that keeps the record of request’s entry and exit.
Zipkin has a feature of drop implementation for big frameworks like Java Spring. It has a web interface that displays the amount of traffic each micro-service is getting. The software has multiple moving pieces and supports multiple storage backends like Elasticsearch. To report data to this software, Http or Kafka are being used widely.




















































