What is Zipkin?
It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. Features include both the collection and lookup of this data.
Zipkin is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Zipkin is an open source tool with 16.9K GitHub stars and 3.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Zipkin's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Zipkin?
Companies
26 companies reportedly use Zipkin in their tech stacks, including deleokorea, Nutmeg, and Medidata Solutions.
Developers
100 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Zipkin.
Zipkin Integrations
OpenCensus, LightStep, Helidon, Hyperf, and Promscale are some of the popular tools that integrate with Zipkin. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Zipkin.
Pros of Zipkin
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Zipkin Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Zipkin?
Jaeger
Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing System
OpenTracing
Consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for distributed tracing and context propagation.
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
AppDynamics
AppDynamics develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications through transaction flow monitoring and deep diagnostics.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
