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2018 12 in Zipkin

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Adrian Cole edited this page Jun 24, 2019 · 2 revisions

Closing out 2018 was quite a lot of fun, with hurrahs about our main repo going well over 10k stars, and a lot of fresh work. We'll go over highlights below, but refer to the repositories or ask on gitter for more details.

Last month, we introduced the new UI: Zipkin Lens. You can toy with it while it evolves by using the zipkin-ui image. There's a lot of work going on with regards to layout, notably a customizable search bar like below:

Lens will soon support auto-completion of site-specific tags such as application environment name. This is pending some storage and api work which will land in January.

Another exciting development has been around a protobuf service endpoint. Currently, applications can send zipkin data in proto3 format. However some are excited to use gRPC instead of raw http. Towards that end, we'll expose a unary gRPC service, for parity with other transports and in support of limited clients such as gRPC-Web (javascript). We may do a streaming service later depending on how experiments go. To keep configuration easy, we plan to use Armeria instead of exposing a second http port for gRPC.

Here's a quick round of notable updates, broken down by repo.

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