Zipkin Receiver

Status
Stability	beta: traces
Distributions	core, contrib, aws, grafana, observiq, redhat, splunk, sumo
Issues
Code Owners	@MovieStoreGuy, @astencel-sumo, @crobert-1

This receiver receives spans from Zipkin (V1 and V2).

Getting Started

All that is required to enable the Zipkin receiver is to include it in the receiver definitions.

receivers:
  zipkin:

The following settings are configurable:

endpoint (default = 0.0.0.0:9411): host:port on which the receiver is going to receive data.
parse_string_tags (default = false): if enabled, the receiver will attempt to parse string tags/binary annotations into int/bool/float.

Several helper files are leveraged to provide additional capabilities automatically: