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Website Crawler vs Zipkin

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

Website Crawler

Website Crawler

Web Browsers

A website crawler is a software program that browses the web in an automated manner. It systematically scans and indexes web pages, following links to crawl through websites. Website crawlers are used by search engines to update their search results.

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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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