federation VS zipkin

Compare federation vs zipkin and see what are their differences.

federation

🌐  Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway. (by apollographql)
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federation zipkin
3 36
641 16,679
1.1% 0.6%
9.4 9.4
about 5 hours ago 1 day ago
TypeScript Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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federation

Posts with mentions or reviews of federation. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-29.
  • The Stack #3
    22 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    Federation comes with its own specification and directives as part of it which helps people to define all of the relations between multiple GraphQL entities so that the Apollo Gateway can combine them all together without having to modify the GraphQL gateway and also functions like __resolveReference which helps in resolving an entity with its reference as specified by the directives.

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 federation 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

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. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

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.

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Jaeger client - 🛑 This library is DEPRECATED!

Pinpoint - APM, (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems.