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Seeing the app trace in the Zipkin UI

Seeing the app trace in the Zipkin UI

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Seeing the app trace in the Zipkin UI

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- [Instructor] We have our backend API service instrumentor now and now let's rebuild the app and generate a request to see how a trace would look like in the Zipkin UI. So next I will start the backend service. I'm invoking Maven which will essentially rebuild the app. We'll run a local Jetty instance and I'm going to start the backend services. Okay our service rebuilt successfully and it's running. Next I'll generate a quick request to test our app. So here I'll run a Curl command that will generate a request against our service. And our backend service is running on port 9000 and I'm calling the API endpoint. And I'll pass the username prompter as a header. It's user dash name. Okay our service responded. So now this point since we're tracing the API call we should see a trace with two spans in the Zipkin UI. So let's go back to the browser and take a look at the Zipkin UI. Here we are. And it might take just a couple of seconds for the span to be reported, again we're using…

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