# zipkin

**Repository Path**: mirrors_dsyer/zipkin

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: zipkin
- **Description**: Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-16

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

[![Gitter chat](http://img.shields.io/badge/gitter-join%20chat%20%E2%86%92-brightgreen.svg)](https://gitter.im/openzipkin/zipkin) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/openzipkin/zipkin.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/openzipkin/zipkin)

![Zipkin (doc/zipkin-logo-200x119.jpg)](https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/raw/master/doc/zipkin-logo-200x119.jpg)

[Zipkin](http://twitter.github.com/zipkin) is a distributed tracing system that helps us gather timing data for all the disparate services at Twitter.

## Full documentation

See [http://twitter.github.com/zipkin](http://twitter.github.com/zipkin)

## Get involved

Join the [openzipkin/zipkin gitter chat](https://gitter.im/openzipkin/zipkin)
for questions and to talk with the developers. Otherwise, there are two mailing
lists you can use to get in touch with other users and developers.

Users: [https://groups.google.com/group/zipkin-user](https://groups.google.com/group/zipkin-user)

Developers: [https://groups.google.com/group/zipkin-dev](https://groups.google.com/group/zipkin-dev)

## Issues

Noticed a bug? [Please file an issue](https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/issues)

## Contributing

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.

Areas where we'd love to see contributions:

* adding tracing to more libraries and protocols
* interesting reports generated with Hadoop from the trace data
* extending collector to support more transports and storage systems
* trace data visualizations in the web UI