"Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. It manages both the collection and lookup of this data. Zipkin’s design is based on the Google Dapper paper."
"In this article, we are going to add Zipkin to our spring cloud project. Zipkin is an open source project that provides mechanisms for sending, receiving, storing, and visualizing traces."