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Zipkin data source
Grafana ships with built-in support for Zipkin, an open source distributed tracing system. The Zipkin data source lets you query and visualize traces collected by Zipkin directly in Grafana, helping you identify latency bottlenecks, trace requests across microservices, and understand dependencies between services.
Note
This plugin requires Grafana version 12.3.0 or later.
Supported features
Get started
The following pages help you get started with the Zipkin data source:
Additional features
After configuring the data source, you can:
- Use Explore to query traces without building a dashboard
- Navigate from traces to related logs with trace to logs integration
- Navigate from traces to related metrics with trace to metrics integration
- Enable the Node graph visualization to view service dependencies
- Add Transformations to manipulate query results
Plugin updates
Always ensure that your plugin version is up-to-date so you have access to all current features and improvements. Navigate to Plugins and data > Plugins to check for updates. Grafana recommends upgrading to the latest Grafana version, and this applies to plugins as well.
Note
Plugins are automatically updated in Grafana Cloud.
