Zipkin
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Zipkin is the older cousin of Jaeger — built by Twitter in 2012 when microservices were still called SOA. It does the same job: trace requests across services and show you the timeline. The Java ecosystem (Spring Cloud Sleuth) loves it. If you see 'trace ID' in your logs and wonder what it's for, it was probably meant for Zipkin.
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