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zipkinreceiver

Zipkin Receiver

Status
Stability beta: traces
Distributions core, contrib
Issues Open issues Closed issues
Code Owners @MovieStoreGuy, @andrzej-stencel, @crobert-1

This receiver receives spans from Zipkin (V1 and V2).

Getting Started

All that is required to enable the Zipkin receiver is to include it in the receiver definitions.

receivers:
  zipkin:

The following settings are configurable:

  • endpoint (default = 0.0.0.0:9411): host:port on which the receiver is going to receive data. The component.UseLocalHostAsDefaultHost feature gate changes this to localhost:9411. This will become the default in a future release.
  • parse_string_tags (default = false): if enabled, the receiver will attempt to parse string tags/binary annotations into int/bool/float.

Advanced Configuration

Several helper files are leveraged to provide additional capabilities automatically: