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Zipkin Api V2 Search Traces Example

Example for searching distributed traces by service name and time range

Distributed TracingObservabilityOpen-SourceMicroservices

Zipkin Api V2 Search Traces 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

titledescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "title": "Search Traces Example",
  "description": "Example for searching distributed traces by service name and time range",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "path": "/api/v2/traces",
    "queryParams": {
      "serviceName": "backend-api",
      "limit": "10",
      "endTs": "1609459260000",
      "lookback": "3600000"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": [
      [
        {
          "traceId": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736",
          "id": "4bf92f3577b34da6",
          "kind": "CLIENT",
          "name": "http-get",
          "timestamp": 1609459200000000,
          "duration": 110000,
          "localEndpoint": {
            "serviceName": "frontend",
            "ipv4": "192.168.1.5"
          },
          "tags": {
            "http.method": "GET",
            "http.status_code": "200"
          }
        },
        {
          "traceId": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736",
          "parentId": "4bf92f3577b34da6",
          "id": "a2fb4a1d1a96d312",
          "kind": "SERVER",
          "name": "get-user",
          "timestamp": 1609459200010000,
          "duration": 72000,
          "localEndpoint": {
            "serviceName": "backend-api",
            "ipv4": "192.168.1.10",
            "port": 8080
          }
        }
      ]
    ]
  }
}

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