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Creating the Spring Cloud Zipkin server

We will create our Zipkin panel structure in Spring Initializr, and then we need to follow the instructions:

Awesome – take a look at the Selected Dependencies section, all of them are required. Pay attention to the Spring Boot version. We choose 1.5.9, because there is no support for Zipkin server in Spring Boot 2. It is not a problem because we do not need specific features from Spring Boot 2.

Click on the Generate Project button and wait for the download to finish. Afterwards, open the project in IDE.

In order to enable service discovery and store Spans on a database, we need to put the following ...

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