Zipkin data source

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

    This is a configuration for the trace to logs feature. Select target data source (at this moment limited to Loki data sources) and select which tags will be used in the logs query.

    • 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.
    • Filter by Trace ID - Toggle to append the trace ID to the Loki query.
    • Filter by Span ID - Toggle to append the span ID to the Loki query.

    Node Graph

    This is a configuration for the beta Node Graph visualization. The Node Graph is shown after the trace view is loaded and is disabled by default.

    Querying and displaying traces from Zipkin is available via .

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    The Zipkin query editor allows you to query by trace ID directly or selecting a trace from trace selector. To query by trace ID, insert the ID into the text input.

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    1. The service you are interested in.
    2. Specific trace in which the selected operation occurred, represented by the root operation name and trace duration.

    Zipkin annotations are shown in the trace view as logs with annotation value shown under annotation key.

    You can upload a JSON file that contains a single trace to visualize it.

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    Here is an example JSON: