Zipkin Receiver

Available in: core, contrib, k8s Maintainers: @MovieStoreGuy, @andrzej-stencel, @crobert-1 Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Supported Telemetry

All that is required to enable the Zipkin receiver is to include it in the receiver definitions.

receivers:
  zipkin:

The following settings are configurable:

endpoint (default = localhost:9411): host:port on which the receiver is going to receive data.See our security best practices doc to understand how to set the endpoint in different environments. You can review the full list of ServerConfig.
parse_string_tags (default = false): if enabled, the receiver will attempt to parse string tags/binary annotations into int/bool/float.

Several helper files are leveraged to provide additional capabilities automatically:

zipkin:
zipkin/customname:
  endpoint: "localhost:8765"
zipkin/parse_strings:
  parse_string_tags: true

Last generated: 2026-04-20