Tracers and Instrumentation

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    LanguageLibraryFrameworkPropagation SupportedTransports SupportedSampling Supported?Other notes
    C++,PythonAnyHttp (B3), ThriftHttp, ScribeYescpp version also available in windows.
    C,C++zipkin-cppgRPCHttp (B3)Http, Kafka, Scribe, X-RayYesincludes benchmarks
    C#OWIN, HttpHandlerHttp (B3)HttpYeslc support. 4.5.2 or higher
    ElixirTapperAny, supported via Tapper PlugHttp (B3)HttpComprises tracing and reporting OTP-application Tapper, with server integration via , and support for tracing Absinthe via
    Gozipkin-go-opentracing, or roll your own with OpenTracingHttp (B3), gRPC (B3)Http, Kafka, ScribeYes
    Gox/net Context KafkaYes
    Gomonkit-zipkinHttp (B3), easy to add othersScribe, UDP, easy to add othersYes
    Javacassandra-zipkin-tracingCQL (B3)Http, Kafka, ScribeYesJava 8+
    JavaDropwizard ZipkinHttp (B3), ThriftHttp, ScribeYesJava 7 or higher
    JavahtraceHDFS, HBase Http, ScribeYesJava 7 or higher
    JavaSpring, Spring Cloud (e.g. Stream, Netflix)Http (B3), Messaging (B3)Http, Spring Cloud Stream Compatible (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis or anything with a custom Binder)YesJava 7 or higher
    JavaWingtips, roll-your-own, Http (B3)HttpYesJava 7 or higher, SLF4J MDC support for auto-tagging all log messages with tracing info
    JavaScriptExpress, KoaHttp (B3)HttpYesProvides zipkin support with addition of a single line of code
    JavaScriptzipkin-instrumentation-vue-resourceVueJSHttp (B3)HttpYesAn interceptor for vue-resource that instruments outgoing HTTP requests.
    JavaScriptNodeJS MySQLHttp (B3)Http, Kafka, ScribeYesProvides zipkin support for NodeJS MySQL
    LuaKongHttp (B3)HttpYesA Kong plugin to enable tracing to a zipkin server.
    PythonAnyHttp (B3)PluggableYesGeneric python tracer, used in pyramid-zipkin; py2, py3 support.
    PythonPyramidHttp (B3)Yespy2, py3 support.
    PythonSwagger (Bravado), to be used with Http (B3)Kafka | ScribeUses py_zipkin; py2, py3 support.
    Pythonflask_zipkinHttp (B3)PluggableYesUses py_zipkin; py2, py3 support.
    PythonasyncioHttp (B3)HttpSupported python 3.5+ and native coroutines.
    Scalakamon-zipkin, akka-http,Http (B3)HttpYesToolkit for tracing and monitoring for jvm based applications
    ScalaAkka, , PlayHttp (B3), ThriftScribeYesJava 6+, Scala 2.10+, activator templates for and Play
    ScalaPlayHttp (B3)HttpYesUses Brave4; Play 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 support.
    Scalaakka-http, Http (B3)HttpYesBrave-based wrapper for any http backend implemented using sttp’s interface
    PHPphpkinAnyB3, custom (depends on user implementation)http, log fileYesSimple and full implementation without dependencies. Very flexible.
    PHPAnyB3http, log file, syslogYesApplication transparent;php5.6 or higher;auto trace pdo/mysqli/curl/memcached/redis;auto add http B3 header.
    PHPzipkin-php-opentracingAnyB3http, log fileYesZipkin V2 client with OpenTracing API
    JavaApache KafkaB3Http, KafkaYesJava 8+, meant to be used for off-the-shelf components like Kafka Connectors, KSQL or Kafka REST Proxy. Instrumentation for Kafka Clients and Kafka Streams are included as Brave instrumentation.
    GoAny SQL Wrapper for golang database/sql
    PHPzipkin-instrumentation-symfonyB3http, log fileYesA Zipkin integration for Symfony applications
    PHPzipkin-instrumentation-doctrine Zipkin instrumentation for Doctrine ORM
    PHPzipkin-instrumentation-guzzle Zipkin instrumentation for Guzzle HTTP Client