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Zipkin in one click.

Zipkin is a distributed tracing for latency analysis you can run on your own machine. Launch it in Even Stacks in one click, serve it over trusted HTTPS, and let your AI agents operate it.

What is Zipkin?

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system used to gather timing data and troubleshoot latency in microservice architectures. It provides a web UI for searching and visualizing traces across services.

CategoryDev
Default port9411
Container imageopenzipkin/zipkin:latest
Official sitezipkin.io

Run Zipkin in Even

Even Stacks launches Zipkin as a managed container on your own machine. No compose files, no manual setup.

  1. Open the Even Stacks panel in Even. The container engine starts on demand.
  2. Find Zipkin in the one-click services and click Launch.
  3. Even pulls the image, starts it on port 9411, and serves it over trusted HTTPS at https://zipkin.localhost.

Drive Zipkin with your AI agents

Even ships an MCP, so any agent you run inside Even (Claude Code, Codex, and more) can operate Zipkin directly, at both the UI level and the container level.

Through the Even MCP an agent can run commands inside the container, build against the service, and read its logs to debug. It runs commands inside the container, reads its logs, and for web apps opens and clicks through the interface in Even's own browser pane. Ask once, for example "set up Zipkin and get it ready", and the agent handles it end to end.

How agents reach it: Open http://localhost:9411 to search and view distributed traces by service, time range, or trace ID. Ingest spans via HTTP POST to http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans with a JSON array body. Data is held in-memory by default and is lost on restart; configure an external storage backend for durability.

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