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OpenTSDB vs Zipkin

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

OpenTSDB

OpenTSDB

Development

OpenTSDB is a distributed, scalable time series database optimized for storing and serving massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity. It's designed to be used as a backend for monitoring systems and analytics platforms.

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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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