apm-server VS zipkin

Compare apm-server vs zipkin and see what are their differences.

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apm-server zipkin
3 36
1,152 16,679
0.8% 0.5%
9.8 9.4
about 10 hours ago about 19 hours ago
Go Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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apm-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of apm-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.
  • โ˜ธ๏ธ Web Application on Kubernetes: A Tutorial to Observability with the Elastic Stack
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2023
    imageTag: 8.5.1 resources: requests: cpu: 10m memory: 768Mi limits: cpu: 1900m memory: 1024Mi ingress: enabled: false # Allows you to add any config files in /usr/share/kibana/config/ kibanaConfig: kibana.yml: | ### default server.host: "0.0.0.0" server.shutdownTimeout: "5s" elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://elasticsearch:9200"] monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled: true ### custom # from https://github.com/elastic/apm-server/issues/10361 xpack.fleet.packages: - name: apm version: 8.5.1
  • Top 13 open source APM tools in 2021
    14 projects | dev.to | 28 Jul 2021
    ๐ŸŒ Website ๐Ÿ’ป GitHub

zipkin

Posts with mentions or reviews of zipkin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing apm-server and zipkin you can also consider the following projects:

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

sentry-java - A Sentry SDK for Java, Android and other JVM languages.

Fluentd - Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

opentelemetry-specification - Specifications for OpenTelemetry

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

brave - Java distributed tracing implementation compatible with Zipkin backend services.

signoz - SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ–ฅ. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

jmeter-dynatrace-plugin - This library implements a JMeter Backend listener and sends the recorded loadtest metrics via the Dynatrace MINT metric ingest to the configured Dynatrace monitoring environment.