Zipkin Traces API

Search and retrieve distributed traces

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zipkin-traces-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Zipkin API v2 Autocomplete Traces API
  description: Zipkin's v2 HTTP API for querying and collecting distributed traces. Provides endpoints for submitting spans, querying traces, looking up services and span names, and retrieving dependency links between services.
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    name: OpenZipkin
    url: https://zipkin.io
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: http://localhost:9411
  description: Default Zipkin server
tags:
- name: Traces
  description: Search and retrieve distributed traces
paths:
  /api/v2/traces:
    get:
      operationId: getTraces
      summary: Zipkin Search for Traces
      description: Searches for traces matching the given query parameters. Results are sorted by descending end timestamp.
      tags:
      - Traces
      parameters:
      - name: serviceName
        in: query
        description: Service name to query for
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: spanName
        in: query
        description: Span name to query for
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: annotationQuery
        in: query
        description: Annotation query string, e.g. "http.method=GET" or "error"
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: minDuration
        in: query
        description: Minimum duration in microseconds
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      - name: maxDuration
        in: query
        description: Maximum duration in microseconds
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      - name: endTs
        in: query
        description: Upper bound on the timestamp of the first span in a trace, in epoch milliseconds. Defaults to current time.
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      - name: lookback
        in: query
        description: How far back to look from endTs, in milliseconds. Defaults to endTs, limited to a system-configured max.
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      - name: limit
        in: query
        description: Maximum number of traces to return. Defaults to 10.
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of traces, each trace is a list of spans
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Span'
        '400':
          description: Bad request
  /api/v2/trace/{traceId}:
    get:
      operationId: getTrace
      summary: Zipkin Get a Trace by ID
      description: Returns a trace by its 16 or 32 character hex trace ID.
      tags:
      - Traces
      parameters:
      - name: traceId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Trace ID, 16 or 32 character hex string
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{16,32}$
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A trace as a list of spans
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Span'
        '404':
          description: Trace not found
components:
  schemas:
    Span:
      type: object
      required:
      - traceId
      - id
      properties:
        traceId:
          type: string
          description: Unique 128-bit or 64-bit trace identifier, hex encoded
          pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{16,32}$
        parentId:
          type: string
          description: The parent span ID, hex encoded, absent if root span
          pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{16}$
        id:
          type: string
          description: Unique 64-bit span identifier, hex encoded
          pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{16}$
        kind:
          type: string
          description: The type of span
          enum:
          - CLIENT
          - SERVER
          - PRODUCER
          - CONSUMER
        name:
          type: string
          description: The logical operation this span represents
        timestamp:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Epoch microseconds of the start of this span
        duration:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Duration in microseconds of the critical path
        localEndpoint:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Endpoint'
        remoteEndpoint:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Endpoint'
        annotations:
          type: array
          description: Events that explain latency with a timestamp
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Annotation'
        tags:
          type: object
          description: Key-value pairs providing additional context
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
        debug:
          type: boolean
          description: True if this span was sampled with debug flag
        shared:
          type: boolean
          description: True if this span ID is shared between client and server
    Endpoint:
      type: object
      description: The network context of a node in the service graph
      properties:
        serviceName:
          type: string
          description: Lower-case label of this node in the service graph
        ipv4:
          type: string
          description: IPv4 address
          format: ipv4
        ipv6:
          type: string
          description: IPv6 address
          format: ipv6
        port:
          type: integer
          description: Port number
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 65535
    Annotation:
      type: object
      required:
      - timestamp
      - value
      properties:
        timestamp:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Epoch microseconds of this event
        value:
          type: string
          description: Event value, usually a short description