Zipkin Storage Forwarder EXPERIMENTAL

Zipkin storage implementation to forward spans to another Zipkin server (collector).

Before:

[ instrumented client ] --> ( transport ) --> [ zipkin server ]

Now:

[ instrumented client ] --> ( transport 1 ) --> [ zipkin forwarder ] --> ( transport 2 ) --> [ zipkin server ]

Where transport 1 could be HTTP or gRPC, and transport 2 could be Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Artifacts

All artifacts publish to the group ID "io.zipkin.contrib.zipkin-storage-forwarder". We use a common release version for all components.

Library Releases

Releases are at Sonatype and Maven Central

Library Snapshots

Snapshots are uploaded to Sonatype after commits to master.

Docker Images

Released versions of zipkin-storage-forwarder are published to GitHub Container Registry as ghcr.io/openzipkin-contrib/zipkin-storage-forwarder. See docker for details.