Is Zipkin Open Source?

Zipkin was developed by Twitter and is now maintained as open-source by its dedicated community.

What is open zipkin?

Zipkin. Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures. Features include both the collection and lookup of this data. If you have a trace ID in a log file, you can jump directly to it.

Which is better zipkin or Jaeger?

Comparing Jaeger and Zipkin​

Though Zipkin is an older project, Jaeger has a more modern and scalable design. Summarizing the key differences between Jaeger and Zipkin: Jaeger's has wider support of instrumentation libraries as it supports OpenTracing APIs and is also compatible with Zipkin's API.