Zipkin Configuration

Configuration

This plugin is compatible with DB-less mode.

Compatible protocols

The Zipkin plugin is compatible with the following protocols:

grpc, grpcs, http, https, tcp, tls, tls_passthrough, udp, ws, wss

Parameters

Here's a list of all the parameters which can be used in this plugin's configuration:

• name

  string required

  The name of the plugin, in this case zipkin.

• instance_name

  string

  An optional custom name to identify an instance of the plugin, for example zipkin_my-service. Useful when running the same plugin in multiple contexts, for example, on multiple services.

• service.name or service.id

  string

  The name or ID of the service the plugin targets. Set one of these parameters if adding the plugin to a service through the top-level /plugins endpoint. Not required if using /services/SERVICE_NAME|ID/plugins.

• route.name or route.id

  string

  The name or ID of the route the plugin targets. Set one of these parameters if adding the plugin to a route through the top-level /plugins endpoint. Not required if using /routes/ROUTE_NAME|ID/plugins.

• consumer.name or consumer.id

  string

  The name or ID of the consumer the plugin targets. Set one of these parameters if adding the plugin to a consumer through the top-level /plugins endpoint. Not required if using /consumers/CONSUMER_NAME|ID/plugins.

• enabled

  boolean default: true

  Whether this plugin will be applied.

• config

  record required
  • local_service_name

    string required default: kong

    The name of the service as displayed in Zipkin.

  • http_endpoint

    string

    A string representing a URL, such as https://example.com/path/to/resource?q=search.

  • sample_ratio

    number default: 0.001 between: 0 1

    How often to sample requests that do not contain trace IDs. Set to 0 to turn sampling off, or to 1 to sample all requests.

  • default_service_name

    string

    Set a default service name to override unknown-service-name in the Zipkin spans.

  • include_credential

    boolean required default: true

    Specify whether the credential of the currently authenticated consumer should be included in metadata sent to the Zipkin server.

  • traceid_byte_count

    integer required default: 16 Must be one of: 8, 16

    The length in bytes of each request’s Trace ID.

  • header_type

    string required default: preserve Must be one of: preserve, ignore, b3, b3-single, w3c, jaeger, ot, aws, datadog, gcp

    All HTTP requests going through the plugin are tagged with a tracing HTTP request. This property codifies what kind of tracing header the plugin expects on incoming requests

  • default_header_type

    string required default: b3 Must be one of: b3, b3-single, w3c, jaeger, ot, aws, datadog, gcp

    Allows specifying the type of header to be added to requests with no pre-existing tracing headers and when config.header_type is set to "preserve". When header_type is set to any other value, default_header_type is ignored.

  • tags_header

    string required default: Zipkin-Tags

    The Zipkin plugin will add extra headers to the tags associated with any HTTP requests that come with a header named as configured by this property.

  • static_tags

    array of type record

    The tags specified on this property will be added to the generated request traces.

    • name

      string required

    • value

      string required

  • http_span_name

    string required default: method Must be one of: method, method_path

    Specify whether to include the HTTP path in the span name.

  • connect_timeout

    integer default: 2000 between: 0 2147483646

    An integer representing a timeout in milliseconds. Must be between 0 and 2^31-2.

  • send_timeout

    integer default: 5000 between: 0 2147483646

    An integer representing a timeout in milliseconds. Must be between 0 and 2^31-2.

  • read_timeout

    integer default: 5000 between: 0 2147483646

    An integer representing a timeout in milliseconds. Must be between 0 and 2^31-2.

  • http_response_header_for_traceid

    string

  • phase_duration_flavor

    string required default: annotations Must be one of: annotations, tags

    Specify whether to include the duration of each phase as an annotation or a tag.

  • queue

    record required
    • max_batch_size

      integer default: 1 between: 1 1000000

      Maximum number of entries that can be processed at a time.

    • max_coalescing_delay

      number default: 1 between: 0 3600

      Maximum number of (fractional) seconds to elapse after the first entry was queued before the queue starts calling the handler.

    • max_entries

      integer default: 10000 between: 1 1000000

      Maximum number of entries that can be waiting on the queue.

    • max_bytes

      integer

      Maximum number of bytes that can be waiting on a queue, requires string content.

    • max_retry_time

      number default: 60

      Time in seconds before the queue gives up calling a failed handler for a batch.

    • initial_retry_delay

      number default: 0.01 between: 0.001 1000000

      Time in seconds before the initial retry is made for a failing batch.

    • max_retry_delay

      number default: 60 between: 0.001 1000000

      Maximum time in seconds between retries, caps exponential backoff.