<h1 id="zipkin">Zipkin<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#zipkin"></a></h1>
<p><a href="https://zipkin.io/">Zipkin</a> is a distributed tracing system.</p>
<h1 id="concepts">Concepts<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#concepts"></a></h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reporters</strong> send tracing data. These might be clients or servers.</li>
<li><strong>Transports</strong>
<ul>
<li>JSON v1</li>
<li>Zipkin Thrift</li>
<li>JSON v2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Components</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Collectors</strong> persist trace data to storage.</li>
<li><strong>Web <abbr title="User Interface">UI</abbr></strong> for viewing traces.</li>
<li><strong>Search</strong> (the Query Service) provides a <a title="Private" href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/hfyvYGJZQiUwQaaxQO27q.html" target="_blank" class="private">p.r.comp.lang.markup.json (Private)</a> <abbr title="Application Programming Interface">API</abbr>.</li>
<li><strong>Storage</strong> is pluggable:
<ul>
<li>Cassandra</li>
<li>ElasticSearch</li>
<li>MySQL</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/171ci4esccg4f43wiiiz7af">Jaeger (public)</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/jcb9j57df7swcbxfd4v9ywo">Ports (public)</a></li>
</ul>

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