Ralph vs Zipkin
A side-by-side look at Ralph and Zipkin. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Ralph
Network & Admin
Ralph is an open-source IT asset management and DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software. It helps organizations track hardware and software assets, manage data center capacity, plan changes, and more. Ralph provides inventory, capacity, reporting, connectivity mapping, change management, and other features.
inventorycapacityreportingconnectivity-mappingchange-management
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.
tracinglatencymicroservicesvisualization