Zipkin Demo with gRPC

Tracing calls between microservices with Zipkin and gRPC

Requirements

• Zipkin (https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin)
• Optional: Zipkin Docker (https://github.com/openzipkin/docker-zipkin)
• govendor (https://github.com/kardianos/govendor)

Installation

Locally with govendor (recommended):

govendor sync
go install ./cmd/...

With go get:

go get github.com/kokaz/zipkin-demo/cmd/...

Run it!

The order matters (a bit) as some services depends on others. Run the services in this order:

beta
centauri
alpha

And then use the client to talk to alpha:

alphaclient

Then go to your Zipkin UI (e.g. localhost:9411) to see the traces.