sleuth-zipkin-demo

This project demos Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin

Start by viewing SLEUTH + ZIPKIN.pdf

SLEUTH

Start sleuth sub project & someapp sub project via their respective main methods:

Call / and /getLocalTime in sluth app from browser and note that (view the logs):

• RestTemplate calls are instrumented to keep traceId.

• LogService and DateService create spans themselves

Call /getRemoteTime (will make a call from sleuth app to someapp app) and view the logs, note the traceId in someApp as well.

Zipkin

Start zipkin-demo subproject. Do like above and go to Zipkin url. Note the:

• Traces

• The custom event from DateService

• The dependency tab

Side note: Image credits

Images in the presentation are from:

• The Sleuth - http://www.thegoldqueen.com

• The Span/Trace visualization - http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-sleuth/spring-cloud-sleuth.html