Distributed Tracing using Zipkin

[Vamsi Jakkula]

i have a setup where there are running and but in between we have kafka as the messaging layer. So checking as if there is a way we can get distributed tracing through zipkin. my understanding is span id are generated only if the communication is between microservices. Any thoughts as how to get the end to end distributed tracing.. 

[Adrian Cole]

Hi, Vamsi.

Here are some resources to look at

https://speakerdeck.com/jeqo/the-importance-of-observability-for-kafka-based-applications-with-zipkin

https://github.com/openzipkin/brave/blob/master/instrumentation/kafka-clients/README.md

feel free to chat more on gitter as well as I dont think everyone are monitoring this list. https://gitter.im/openzipkin/zipkin

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019, 1:40 AM Vamsi Jakkula <krishn...@gmail.com> wrote:

i have a setup where there are running and but in between we have kafka as the messaging layer. So checking as if there is a way we can get distributed tracing through zipkin. my understanding is span id are generated only if the communication is between microservices. Any thoughts as how to get the end to end distributed tracing.. 

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[Yuri Shkuro]

Hi Vamsi,

I have a working example in my book: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Distributed-Tracing/tree/master/Chapter05. 

It uses Jaeger as the tracing backend, but you can reconfigure Jaeger tracers to talk Zipkin format or to use OpenTracing binding for a native Zipkin tracer. The chapter also discusses the overall approach to tracing Kafka.