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@codefromthecrypt codefromthecrypt released this 28 Oct 09:32
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Zipkin 1.14 introduces support for 128-bit trace identifiers

Most zipkin sites store traces for a limited amount of time (like 2 days) and also trace a small percentage of operations (via sampling). For these reasons and also those of simplicity, 64-bit trace identifiers have been the norm since zipkin started over 4 years ago.

Starting with Zipkin 1.14, 128-bit trace identifiers are also supported. This can be useful in sites that have very large traffic volume, persist traces forever, or are re-using externally generated 128-bit IDs as trace IDs. You can also use 128-bit trace ids to interop with other 128-bit systems such as Google Stackdriver Trace. Note: span IDs within a trace are still 64-bit.

When 128-bit trace ids are propagated, they will be twice as long as before. For example, the X-B3-TraceId header will hold a 32-character value like 163ac35c9f6413ad48485a3953bb6124. Prior to Zipkin 1.14, we updated all major tracing libraries to silently truncate long trace ids to 64-bit. With the example noted, its 64-bit counterpart would be 48485a3953bb6124. For the foreseeable future, you will be able to lookup a trace by either its 128-bit or 64-bit ID. This allows you to upgrade your instrumentation and environment in steps.

Should you want to use 128-bit tracing today, you'll need to update to latest Zipkin, and if using MySQL, issue the following DDL update:

ALTER TABLE zipkin_spans ADD `trace_id_high` BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE zipkin_annotations ADD `trace_id_high` BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE zipkin_spans
   DROP INDEX trace_id,
   ADD UNIQUE KEY(`trace_id_high`, `trace_id`, `id`) COMMENT 'ignore insert on duplicate';
ALTER TABLE zipkin_annotations
   DROP INDEX trace_id,
   ADD UNIQUE KEY(`trace_id_high`, `trace_id`, `span_id`, `a_key`, `a_timestamp`) COMMENT 'Ignore insert on duplicate';

Next, you'll need to use a library that supports generating 128-bit ids. The first two to support this are zipkin-go-opentracing v0.2 and Brave (java) v3.5. The supporting change in thrift is a new trace_id_high field.

If you have any further questions on this feature, reach out to us on gitter: https://gitter.im/openzipkin/zipkin

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