Zipkin browser extension

[Isaac Sukin]

Hi everyone,

Today we're announcing a Firefox extension for Zipkin that shows lightweight visualizations of traces of all HTTP requests made while browsing your website. You can read more on the Twitter engineering blog.

Special thanks to Brian Degenhardt (@bmdhacks) for his feedback and for getting me up-to-speed with Zipkin!

Cheers,
Isaac

[Madhurima Poddar]

Hey Isaac,

I read went through your instructions for the plugin use. I was able to install the plugin, but whenever I click on the zipkin tab in firebug , it says "No requests have been traced yet. To get started, please visit a page Zipkin is configured to trace.". I guess my site trace url and zipkin url are wrong, maybe? . Could you please give me an example where I can run the site and see the trace.

Thanks

[Brian Degenhardt]

Hi, do you have an existing zipkin installation in the website that you are testing against?  That's a requirement for the browser extension.  Sadly we don't have an example installation to offer.

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[Madhurima Poddar]

Oh, I see. No I do not. If I have a django app, running locally, is there instructions anywhere on how to have zipkin installed? If you could point me to that, it would be great! 

Thanks

[Brian Degenhardt]

Fair warning: Installing zipkin is non-trivial.  You're basically deploying a whole subsystem from the twitter infrastructure designed to handle more data than most of websites on the internet.  Here's the instructions:

http://twitter.github.io/zipkin/install.html

There is no out-of-the-box tracing for django, but there is limited instrumentation of python by a third-party system written by rackspace: https://github.com/racker/tryfer

Sadly, I don't have any documentation on how to use it, and github is giving me troubles at the moment.

cheers

-bmd