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Zipkin Api V2 Report Spans Example

Example request for submitting distributed trace spans to Zipkin

Distributed TracingObservabilityOpen SourceMicroservices

Zipkin Api V2 Report Spans Example is an example object payload from Zipkin, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

{
  "title": "Report Spans Example",
  "description": "Example request for submitting distributed trace spans to Zipkin",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "path": "/api/v2/spans",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": [
      {
        "traceId": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736",
        "parentId": "00f067aa0ba902b7",
        "id": "a2fb4a1d1a96d312",
        "kind": "SERVER",
        "name": "get-user",
        "timestamp": 1609459200000000,
        "duration": 72000,
        "localEndpoint": {
          "serviceName": "backend-api",
          "ipv4": "192.168.1.10",
          "port": 8080
        },
        "remoteEndpoint": {
          "serviceName": "frontend",
          "ipv4": "192.168.1.5"
        },
        "tags": {
          "http.method": "GET",
          "http.path": "/users/123",
          "http.status_code": "200"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 202,
    "body": null
  }
}