Zipkin receiver 🔗

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 OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

Install the Collector for Linux with the installer script

Install the Collector for Windows with the installer script

Install the Collector for Kubernetes

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:

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers

Submit a case in the Splunk Support Portal .
Call Splunk Customer Support .

Available to prospective customers and free trial users

Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .
Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide. To join, see Chat groups in the Get Started with Splunk Community manual.

To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success .

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