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This is the core npm package for Zipkin. It contains the public API which is used by the various plugins (instrumentations and transports).
We include TypeScript definition file which you can also use as documentation.
Please always make sure that TypeScript type definitions match source code modifications.
const zipkin = require('zipkin');
// In Node.js, the recommended context API to use is zipkin-context-cls.
const CLSContext = require('zipkin-context-cls');
const ctxImpl = new CLSContext(); // if you want to use CLS
const xtxImpl = new zipkin.ExplicitContext(); // Alternative; if you want to pass around the context manually
const tracer = new zipkin.Tracer({
ctxImpl,
recorder: new zipkin.ConsoleRecorder(), // For easy debugging. You probably want to use an actual implementation, like Kafka or Scribe.
sampler: new zipkin.sampler.CountingSampler(0.01), // sample rate 0.01 will sample 1 % of all incoming requests
traceId128Bit: true // to generate 128-bit trace IDs. 64-bit (false) is default
});
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The core tracer for Zipkin JS
The npm package zipkin receives a total of 40,152 weekly downloads. As such, zipkin popularity was classified as popular.
We found that zipkin demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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