Is there a possible way of using Zipkin without Sleuth?

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I have some distributed micro services written in Spring Boot and I am using RabbitMQ. I want to track my requests. Is there a possible way of tracking without using Spring Cloud or Sleuth

any reason why you do not go for the sleuth with Zipkin ? – Niraj Jha Oct 03 '19 at 08:37 — Niraj Jha, Oct 03 '19 at 08:37
My boss said we won't use Spring Cloud. – Mali Oct 03 '19 at 08:41 — Mali, Oct 03 '19 at 08:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '19 at 09:18

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According to this Spring Cloud Sleuth is the only tracer that supports messaging.

answered Oct 03 '19 at 09:18

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '19 at 13:58

Brave is the library spring cloud sleuth is built on, therefore you could make it work without sleuth: https://github.com/openzipkin/brave

Just to clarify though, Sleuth doesn't force you to use any of the rest of the spring-cloud components. It is spring-cloud because it is one of the "cloud native" spring technologies

Is there a possible way of using Zipkin without Sleuth?

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