How to configure the Zipkin Server?

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. It manages both the collection and lookup of this data. Zipkin’s design is based on the Google Dapper.

Spring has deprecated the Zipkin UI and Zipkin server from Spring Boot.

Lets configure the external Zipkin server.

1. Download the zipkin server from Java section : 
https://zipkin.io/pages/quickstart.html 

2. After downloading the jar file fire below command to start the zipkin server
java -jar zipkin.jar
This will start the zipkin server on http://localhost:9411

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In this tutorial we will understand below topics
    – What is Spring Cloud Sleuth?
    – What is distributed tracing solution?
    – How to implement the Spring Cloud Sleuth in microservices?
PART 7 – MICROSERVICES WITH SPRING CLOUD : DISTRIBUTED TRACING WITH SPRING CLOUD SLEUTH

Part 8 – Distributed Tracing With Spring Cloud Sleuth & Zipkin
    – In this tutorial we will understand below topics
    – What is Zipkin?
    – How to log the distributed logs at one place in microservices?
    – Setup Zipkin Server
    – Setting up RabbitMQ 
    – How to implement the Zipkin in microservices?
PART 8 – MICROSERVICES WITH SPRING CLOUD : DISTRIBUTED TRACING WITH SPRING CLOUD SLEUTH & ZIPKIN

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