Zipkin data source

    To access Zipkin settings, click the Configuration (gear) icon, then click Data Sources > Zipkin.

    • Data source - Target data source.
    • Tags - The tags that will be used in the Loki query. Default is 'cluster', 'hostname', 'namespace', 'pod'.
    • Span end time shift - Shift in the end time for the Loki query based on the span end time. Time units can be used here, for example, 5s, 1m, 3h. The default is 0.

    Querying and displaying traces from Zipkin is available via .

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    Use the trace selector to pick particular trace from all traces logged in the time range you have selected in Explore. The trace selector has three levels of nesting:

    1. The service you are interested in.
    2. Particular operation is part of the selected service

    You can link to Zipkin trace from logs in Loki by configuring a derived field with internal link. See Loki documentation for details.