Zipkin Open-Source Distributed Tracing

Explore this developer service’s ongoing no-cost allowance, restrictions and official documentation before deploying.

INCLUDED FREE ALLOWANCE

Apache-2.0 open-source distributed tracing collector, query API and UI with no vendor software subscription or built-in license usage quota.

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Plan details

What do these plan and deployment labels mean?

Plan: Ongoing free allowance
Deployment model: Self-hosted
Credit card: Not required
Commercial use: Allowed
Added to directory (UTC): 2026-11-02
Last checked: 2026-10-31

Important restrictions

Operate the Zipkin server yourself using Java/Docker and instrument applications. Persistent trace storage may require Cassandra, Elasticsearch or another backend; compute, storage, messaging and network charges are separate. No hosted free tracing service is included.

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