See LICENSE.txt for terms of use.

Author: Isaac Sukin, @IceCreamYou

This extension allows seeing Zipkin traces in a Firebug panel. Depends on Firebug.

To install the extension, find the "Install Add-on From File..." button in the "Tools > Add-Ons" dialog and navigate to the XPI file. Afterwards, edit the extension's options (click the "Options" button under the extension's description in the Add-Ons dialog) and change the URLs to the ones you want to work with.

To use the extension, open Firebug and go to the Zipkin tab, then load the site you want to profile. Any HTTP requests that match the "Site to trace" setting will be listed in that pane along with a summary of the Zipkin trace, a link to the full trace, and other useful information. The summary visualization shows the services that took the longest to process during the request. If you would like to clear the traces in the pane, click the small options arrow next to where it says "Zipkin" in the tab title and then click "Clear Traces" from the drop-down menu. That drop-down also has an option to toggle whether tracing is enabled and whether to trace the Zipkin web UI if applicable. If you have traced over 100 requests without clearing them, old requests are expired after 15 minutes.

To build the extension, run ant in the extension's directory (ant 1.8+ is required). This will (re)generate zipkin.xpi. If you'd like to dig into the code, please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how the code is structured.

To update the extension, find the "Install Add-on From File..." button in the "Tools > Add-Ons" dialog and navigate to the XPI file. The new version of the extension will overwrite the existing one. If you have had Firebug open in your current browsing session, you will need to reload Firebug. The easiest way to do so is to restart Firefox.