Zipkin receiver

The Zipkin receiver receives spans from Zipkin versions 1 and 2.

The Zipkin receiver gathers spans from Zipkin versions 1 and 2. The supported pipeline type is traces. See Process your data with pipelines for more information.

Get started

Note: This component is included in the default configuration of the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector when deploying in host monitoring (agent) mode. See Collector deployment modes for more information. For details about the default configuration, see Configure the Collector for Kubernetes with Helm, Collector for Linux default configuration, or Collector for Windows default configuration. You can customize your configuration any time as explained in this document.

Follow these steps to configure and activate the component:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
Configure the Zipkin receiver as described in the next section.
Restart the Collector.

Sample configuration

To activate the Zipkin receiver, add zipkin to the receivers section of your configuration file, as in the following sample configurations.

receivers:
  zipkin:
    endpoint: 0.0.0.0:9412

To complete the configuration, include the receiver in the traces pipeline of the service section of your configuration file. For example:

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [zipkin]

The following settings are configurable:

endpoint: host:port on which the receiver is going to receive data. 0.0.0.0:9411 by default.
parse_string_tags: If enabled, the receiver attempts to parse string tags or binary annotations into int/bool/float. false by default.

Additional settings

The Zipkin receiver uses helper files for additional capabilities:

HTTP settings, including CORS. See more in GitHub at HTTP Configuration Settings
TLS and mTLS settings. Learn more in GitHub at TLS Configuration Settings .

Settings

The following table shows the configuration options for the Zipkin receiver:

included

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