distributed-tracing

This repository contains code to explore distributed tracing with zipkin and linkerd

This is the architecture we're aiming for (unless we don't want to use namerd :) )

Application
  |
Request
  |
  V
linkerd ----logical name-----> namerd <--> Service Discovery
        <---concrete address--        <--> Dtab Storage
  |
Request
  |
  V
Destination

see: https://github.com/BuoyantIO/linkerd/tree/master/namerd

zipkin

put this in the linkerd config/linkerd.yaml and restart linkerd

tracers:
- kind: io.l5d.zipkin
  host: localhost
  port: 9411
  sampleRate: 0.02

run zipkin

java -jar zipkin.jar

check 192.168.33.10:9411 for tracing