Ingest data from Zipkin

The following configuration example shows how you configure a Collector instance to accept Zipkin data, transform it to OTLP, and send it to the Dynatrace backend.

Prerequisites

Demo configuration

receivers:
  zipkin:

exporters:
  otlphttp:
    endpoint: ${env:DT_ENDPOINT}
    headers:
      Authorization: "Api-Token ${env:DT_API_TOKEN}"

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [zipkin]
      exporters: [otlphttp]

Components

For our configuration, we configure the following components.

Receiver

Under receivers, we specify the zipkin receiver as active receiver component for our Collector instance.

The Zipkin receiver can be customized with a few more attributes, which we leave with their default values in our example.

Exporter

Under exporters, we specify the default otlphttp exporter and configure it with our Dynatrace API URL and the required authentication token.

For this purpose, we set the following two environment variables and reference them in the configuration values for endpoint and Authorization.

Service pipeline

Under service, we eventually assemble our receiver and exporter objects into a traces pipeline, which will handle our Zipkin transformation to OTLP.