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What is Zipkin?

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. Zipkin manages the collection and lookup of this data.

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What other technologies are related to Zipkin?

Zipkin Competitor Technologies

Jaeger

Jaeger is a distributed tracing system, similar to Zipkin, used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 14% (631) of relevant job posts

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral observability framework that provides APIs, SDKs, and tools for collecting and exporting telemetry data, including traces, metrics, and logs. It can be used as an alternative to Zipkin for tracing.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 2% (223) of relevant job posts

New Relic

New Relic is an application performance monitoring (APM) platform that includes distributed tracing capabilities, making it a competitor to Zipkin.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 1% (299) of relevant job posts

Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that includes distributed tracing capabilities, making it a competitor to Zipkin.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 0% (352) of relevant job posts

AppDynamics

AppDynamics is an application performance management (APM) suite with distributed tracing functionality, a competitor to Zipkin.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 1% (188) of relevant job posts

Zipkin Complementary Technologies

Micrometer metrics

Micrometer provides a common interface for collecting application metrics that can then be exported to various monitoring systems, including systems that can be used along with Zipkin.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 99% (70) of relevant job posts

Sleuth

Spring Cloud Sleuth automatically adds trace IDs to logs, making it easier to correlate log events with traces in Zipkin.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 36% (88) of relevant job posts

Prometheus

Prometheus is a monitoring solution for metrics. While not directly related to tracing like Zipkin, it often works alongside tracing to provide a complete view of system performance.

mentioned alongside Zipkin in 1% (1.1k) of relevant job posts