Spring Cloud also provides integration to the Zipkin library. We will discuss how to add Zipkin to our microservices-based application. Zipkin provides a mechanism for log-message tracing into your application, such as sending, receiving, storing, and visualizing traces. Zipkin also allows us to trace log activity across servers and gives a much clearer picture of your application and what is happening in our microservices.
As we have discussed in the previous section about Spring Cloud Sleuth, by using it, you can easily trace the log messages in your distributed application. Any library could provide the additional information in your log messages, which would be great for your application. So, we have used ...
