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Zipkin Example

This is a simple example that demonstrates how to use the OpenTelemetry SDK to instrument a simple application using Zipkin as the trace exporter.

How to Run

Prerequisites

• Java 17 or higher is required to run Gradle and build this example
• Java 8 or higher may be used to run the example once it has been built
• Docker 19.03

1 - Compile

../gradlew shadowJar

2 - Run Zipkin

docker run --rm -it --name zipkin \
  -p 9411:9411 \
  openzipkin/zipkin:latest

3 - Start the Application

java -cp build/libs/opentelemetry-examples-zipkin-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-all.jar io.opentelemetry.example.zipkin.ZipkinExample localhost 9411

4 - Open the Zipkin UI

Navigate to http://localhost:9411/zipkin and click on search.