# Zipkin

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system that gathers timing data to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. It collects trace data and lets users look it up by trace ID or by attributes such as service, operation name, tags and duration. Its UI summarizes time spent per service and failed operations and shows a dependency diagram of how many traced requests went through each application.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/zipkin · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2012
- Company type: Open source project
- Deployment: Self-hosted: run the self-contained executable jar or the openzipkin/zipkin Docker image. The server requires JRE 17 or newer and serves the UI on port 9411 by default.
- Best for: Teams troubleshooting latency problems in service architectures

## Products

- Zipkin: Distributed tracing system that collects, stores and serves trace data, with a UI for querying traces and viewing a dependency diagram.
- Zipkin Slim: Slim server variant of Zipkin.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 36 of 45 | 0.3 | 1 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 0.9 | 3.7% |
| google_ai_mode | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| perplexity | 0.0 | 0.0% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Zipkin AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/zipkin, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).