Skip to content

Zipkin V1 Receiver + V2 Exporter creates empty annotations #960

@chris-smith-zocdoc

Description

@chris-smith-zocdoc

In the json zipkin v1 format, the span kind is inferred from the annotations (sr, ss = kind SERVER). The inference is working correctly, but ends up creating empty annotations when used with a v2 Exporter. These annotations contain just a timestamp and no other information. I believe these should be removed.

Example v1 span

[
    {
        "id": "cfa93400b6c64114",
        "name": "GET",
        "annotations": [
            {
                "timestamp": 1589329047638966,
                "value": "sr",
                "endpoint": {
                    "ipv4": "172.29.0.3",
                    "port": 0,
                    "serviceName": "my-service"
                }
            },
            {
                "timestamp": 1589329047643097,
                "value": "ss",
                "endpoint": {
                    "ipv4": "172.29.0.3",
                    "port": 0,
                    "serviceName": "my-service"
                }
            }
        ],
        "binaryAnnotations": [
            {
                "key": "http.host",
                "value": "localhost:5000",
                "endpoint": {
                    "ipv4": "172.29.0.3",
                    "port": 0,
                    "serviceName": "my-service"
                }
            },
            {
                "key": "http.uri",
                "value": "http://localhost:5000/healthcheck",
                "endpoint": {
                    "ipv4": "172.29.0.3",
                    "port": 0,
                    "serviceName": "my-service"
                }
            },
            {
                "key": "http.path",
                "value": "/healthcheck",
                "endpoint": {
                    "ipv4": "172.29.0.3",
                    "port": 0,
                    "serviceName": "my-service"
                }
            }
        ],
        "debug": false,
        "traceId": "778fff36dc3e06cd",
        "timestamp": 1589329047638966,
        "duration": 4130
    }
]

I expect this to produce a span that looks like this

[
    {
        "traceId": "778fff36dc3e06cd",
        "id": "cfa93400b6c64114",
        "kind": "SERVER",
        "name": "get",
        "timestamp": 1589329047638966,
        "duration": 4130,
        "localEndpoint": {
            "serviceName": "my-service",
            "ipv4": "172.29.0.3"
        },
        "tags": {
            "http.host": "localhost:5000",
            "http.path": "/healthcheck",
            "http.uri": "http://localhost:5000/healthcheck"
        }
    }
]

But instead it produces this

[
    {
        "traceId": "690dba9272ff7f43",
        "id": "1691fe50b928203c",
        "kind": "SERVER",
        "name": "get",
        "timestamp": 1589329265584397,
        "duration": 10734,
        "localEndpoint": {
            "serviceName": "my-service",
            "ipv4": "172.29.0.3"
        },
        "annotations": [
            {
                "timestamp": 1589329265584397,
                "value": ""
            },
            {
                "timestamp": 1589329265595132,
                "value": ""
            }
        ],
        "tags": {
            "http.host": "localhost:5000",
            "http.path": "/healthcheck",
            "http.uri": "http://localhost:5000/healthcheck"
        }
    }
]

docker-compose.yml

version: "2"
services:
  otel-collector:
    image: otelcontribcol:latest
    command: ["--config=/etc/otel-collector-config.yaml", "--mem-ballast-size-mib", "4000"]
    volumes:
      - ./otel-collector-config.yaml:/etc/otel-collector-config.yaml
    ports:
      - "8080:9411" # zipkin
    depends_on:
      - zipkin-all-in-one

  zipkin-all-in-one:
    image: openzipkin/zipkin:latest
    ports:
      - "9411:9411"

otel-collector-config.yaml

receivers:
  zipkin:
    endpoint: :9411

exporters:
  zipkin:
    url: "http://zipkin-all-in-one:9411/api/v2/spans"

processors:
  queued_retry:

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [zipkin]
      processors: [queued_retry]
      exporters: [zipkin]

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    bugSomething isn't workinghelp wantedGood issue for contributors to OpenTelemetry Service to pick up

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions