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Seeing web service traces in the Zipkin UI

Seeing web service traces in the Zipkin UI

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Seeing web service traces in the Zipkin UI

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- [Instructor] With our web controller instrumentation in place now all our web services will get automatically instrumented with Zipkin. and take a look at what our spans and trace data will look like in the Zipkin UI. So I'm starting again our backend service. Okay we're up and running. Now let's initiate a few requests to our service end points. So I'll make a API call first followed by a database call, followed by a GMS call. Here is the call to the query endpoint. And here's a call to our MQ endpoint. Okay now let's take a look at the Zipkin UI and what our three traces look like. Again I'll give it a few seconds for traces to get persisted and reported. Okay now notice that we have three traces based on the three requests that we generated. And they contain a different number of spans so let's take a look at each. So this is our call to our API service notice that on top of our route trace now is actually a web service call. It's a gate to our API. And then underneath it we have…

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