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Top 6 Java distributed-tracing Projects

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  1. skywalking

    APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

    Project mention: Apache SkyWalking: APM system designed for microservices, cloud native | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-20

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  3. zipkin

    Zipkin is a distributed tracing system

    Project mention: Kubernetes Overview: Container Orchestration & Cloud-Native | dev.to | 2025-08-19

    The standard observability stack includes Prometheus for metrics collection, Grafana for visualization, and AlertManager for notifications. For logging, consider Fluent Bit or Fluentd with Elasticsearch or cloud logging services. Jaeger or Zipkin provide distributed tracing for microservices debugging.

  4. Pinpoint

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

  5. transmittable-thread-local

    📌 a missing Java std lib(simple & 0-dependency) for framework/middleware, provide an enhanced InheritableThreadLocal that transmits values between threads even using thread pooling components.

  6. brave

    Java distributed tracing implementation compatible with Zipkin backend services.

    Project mention: About Micrometer Context Propagation | dev.to | 2025-02-07

    class MDCAccessor : ThreadLocalAccessor> { override fun key(): Any { return MDCAccessor::class.java } override fun getValue(): Map? { return MDC.getCopyOfContextMap() } override fun setValue(value: Map) { // There are cases where it doesn't work well when used together with Brave's MDC decoration, so use the put method. // see: https://github.com/openzipkin/brave/blob/69003dfc811418f0dbc42e9e17ff880ebe1f4b02/brave/src/main/java/brave/propagation/CurrentTraceContext.java#L130 value.forEach { (k, v) -> MDC.put(k, v) } } override fun setValue() { // NOOP } override fun restore(previousValue: Map) { MDC.setContextMap(previousValue) } override fun restore() { MDC.clear() } }

  7. tracing

    Provides tracing abstractions over tracers and tracing system reporters. (by micrometer-metrics)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source distributed-tracing projects in Java? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 skywalking 24,496
2 zipkin 17,288
3 Pinpoint 13,703
4 transmittable-thread-local 8,112
5 brave 2,389
6 tracing 274

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