Tracing
Zipkin
open source / community (OpenZipkin)
The original, simple, mature distributed-tracing system — easy to stand up, broad legacy language support.
- Category
- Tracing
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Legacy
- Popularity
- ≈8.8k GitHub stars; maintenance mode
The catch
Volunteer-maintained and effectively in maintenance mode; the ecosystem has largely moved to OpenTelemetry + Jaeger/Tempo for new builds.
Monitors
Traces
Capabilities
Distributed tracing
Built for
SRE / DevOps