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# Zipkin

> OpenTelemetry receiver for Zipkin

# Zipkin Receiver

![Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-beta-yellow)

**Available in:** `core`, `contrib`, `k8s`

**Maintainers:** [@MovieStoreGuy](https://github.com/MovieStoreGuy), [@andrzej-stencel](https://github.com/andrzej-stencel), [@crobert-1](https://github.com/crobert-1)

**Source:** [opentelemetry-collector-contrib](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/zipkinreceiver)

## Supported Telemetry

![Traces](https://img.shields.io/badge/traces-beta-orange)

## Overview

## Getting Started

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

```yaml theme={null}
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](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/security/config-best-practices/#protect-against-denial-of-service-attacks) to understand how to set the endpoint in different environments.  You can review the [full list of `ServerConfig`](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/config/confighttp).
* `parse_string_tags` (default = false): if enabled, the receiver will attempt to parse string tags/binary annotations into int/bool/float.

## Advanced Configuration

Several helper files are leveraged to provide additional capabilities automatically:

* [HTTP server settings](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/config/confighttp/README.md#server-configuration) including CORS
* [TLS and mTLS settings](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/config/configtls/README.md)

## Configuration

### Example Configuration

```yaml theme={null}
zipkin:
zipkin/customname:
  endpoint: "localhost:8765"
zipkin/parse_strings:
  parse_string_tags: true
```

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*Last generated: 2026-07-06*