openzipkin/zipkin
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Zipkin is a distributed tracing system observed · 2026-09-24
Health v2 · maintenance only
80/100
- Activity 88
- Release rhythm 59
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 40
- age_days: 5249
- days_rel: 195
- days_push: 76
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
17465 stars · 3100 forks observed · 2026-09-24
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system that collects and stores timing data from instrumented applications to help troubleshoot latency in service architectures. It provides a web UI for querying traces by ID, service, tags, or duration, plus dependency diagrams showing request flow between services.
Use cases
- troubleshoot latency problems in microservices
- find slow requests across a distributed system
- view service dependency diagrams
- look up a trace by trace ID from a log file
- collect spans via HTTP or Kafka
- self-host a tracing backend for OpenTelemetry data
When to choose
- you need a mature, self-contained tracing server with a built-in UI
- you want flexible storage backends like Cassandra or Elasticsearch
- you report spans over HTTP, Kafka, gRPC, or RabbitMQ
- you need a lightweight jar or Docker deployment
When to avoid
- you need metrics and logs alongside traces in one observability platform
- you want a fully managed cloud tracing service
- your environment cannot run Java 17+ or Docker
Facets
service · maturity stable
tracing monitoring http-server search-engine monitoring microservices jvm self-hosted cross-platform distributed-tracing observability latency-troubleshooting opentelemetry-compatible service-dependency-graph devops docker web-server
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin · fetched 2026-09-24 · 71b2a2adbd26
- homepage: https://zipkin.io/ · fetched 2026-10-12 · ca5ec21a4f49
- site_page: https://zipkin.io/pages/quickstart.html · fetched 2026-10-12 · 4cc7a6a83156
- site_page: https://zipkin.io/pages/quickstart · fetched 2026-10-12 · 4cc7a6a83156
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| openzipkin/zipkin | main | 80 |
For agents
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