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Glowroot vs Zipkin

A side-by-side look at Glowroot and Zipkin. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Glowroot

Glowroot

Development

Glowroot is an open source Java Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool. It is used to monitor, profile and diagnose performance issues in Java applications in real-time. Glowroot is lightweight, easy to use, and provides detailed monitoring data to quickly find and fix performance bottlenecks.

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Zipkin

Zipkin

Development

Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system. It is used to gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. Zipkin helps gather timing data related to inter-service calls and provides tools to visualize this data.

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