Blue Matador vs Zipkin: What are the differences?

Developers describe Blue Matador as "An automated monitoring and alerting platform". For time-strapped, agile tech teams, monitoring tools are too manual. Understanding baselines, fine-tuning thresholds, and examining visualizations for defects requires significant time and toil. But unlike all the other monitoring tools on the market, it eliminates the need to manually configure alerts. After a quick setup it instantly discovers all of your resources, automatically creates hundreds of alerts out-of-the-box, and proactively notifies you of critical production issues. On the other hand, Zipkin is detailed as "A distributed tracing system". It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. Features include both the collection and lookup of this data.

Blue Matador and Zipkin can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.

Zipkin is an open source tool with 11.4K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Zipkin's open source repository on GitHub.