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zipkin v2.14.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-05-15 // almost 5 years ago

  • 🚀 Zipkin 2.14 adds storage throttling and Elasticsearch 7 support. We've also improved efficiency around span collection and enhanced the UI. As mentioned last time, this release drops support for Elasticsearch v2.x and Kafka v0.8.x. Here's a run-down of what's new.

    Storage Throttling (Experimental)

    👷 How to manage surge problems in collector architecture is non-trivial. While we've collected resources for years about this, only recently we had a champion to take on some mechanics in practical ways. @Logic-32 fleshed out concerns in collector surge handling and did an excellent job evaluating options for those running pure http sites.

    Towards that end, @Logic-32 created an experimental storage throttling feature (bundled for your convenience). When STORAGE_THROTTLE_ENABLED=true calls to store spans pay attention to storage errors and adjust backlog accordingly. Under the hood, this uses Netfix concurrency limits.

    👀 Craig tested this at his Elasticsearch site, and it resulted in far less dropped spans than before. If you are interested in helping test this feature, please see the configuration notes and join gitter to let us know how it works for you.

    Elasticsearch 7.x

    👀 Our server now supports Elasticsearch 6-7.x formally (and 5.x as best efforts). Most notably, you'll no longer see colons in your index patterns if using Elasticsearch 7.x. Thank to @making and @chefky for the early testing of this feature as quite a lot changed under the hood!

    💻 Lens UI improvements

    0️⃣ @tacigar continues to improve Lens so that it can become the default user interface. He's helped tune the trace detail screen, notably displaying the minimap more intuitively based on how many spans are in the trace. You'll also notice the minimap has a slider now, which can help stabilize the area of the trace you are investigating.

    Significant efficiency improvements

    📜 Our Armeria collectors (http and grpc) now work natively using pooled buffers as opposed to byte arrays with renovated protobuf parsers. The sum this is more efficient trace collection when using protobuf encoding. Thanks very much to @anuraaga for leading and closely reviewing the most important parts of this work.

    👍 No more support for Elasticsearch 2.x and Kafka 0.8.x

    🚀 We no longer support Elasticsearch 2.x or Kafka 0.8.x. Please see advice mentioned in our last release if you are still on these products.

    Scribe is now bundled (again)

    🚚 We used to bundle Scribe (Thrift RPC span collector), but eventually moved it to a separate module due to it being archived technology with library conflicts. Our server is now powered by Armeria, which natively supports thrift. Thanks to help from @anuraaga, the server has built-in scribe support for those running legacy applications. set SCRIBE_ENABLED=true to use this.

    ⚡️ Other notable updates

    • Elasticsearch span documents are written with ID ${traceID}-${MD5(json)} to allow for server-side deduplication
    • ✅ Zipkin Server is now using the latest Spring Boot 2.1.5 and Armeria 0.85.0