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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 🔗

Follow these steps to configure and activate the component:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

  1. Configure the Zipkin receiver as described in the next section.

  2. Restart the Collector.

Sample configurations 🔗

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

See Settings for more details.

receivers:
  zipkin:
    endpoint: 0.0.0.0:9412

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:

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

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 .