Chapter 349. Zipkin Component

Available as of Camel 2.18

The camel-zipkin component is used for tracing and timing incoming and outgoing Camel messages using zipkin.

Events (span) are captured for incoming and outgoing messages being sent to/from Camel.

This means you need to configure which Camel endpoints map to zipkin service names.

The mapping can be configured using:

For both kinds you can match using wildcards and regular expressions, using the rules from Intercept.

To match all Camel messages you can use * in the pattern and configure that to the same service name.

If no mapping has been configured, Camel will fallback and use endpoint uri’s as service names. 
However, it’s recommended to configure service mappings so you can use human-readable names instead of Camel endpoint uris in the names.

Camel will auto-configure a span reporter one hasn’t been explicitly configured, and if the hostname and port to a zipkin collector has been configured as environment variables

or

This makes it easy to use camel-zipkin in container platforms where the platform can run your application in a linux container where service configurations are provided as environment variables.