opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json
Zipkin Span JSON Exporter for OpenTelemetry
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. This is a production-stable, actively maintained exporter with low install friction, no known vulnerabilities, and permissive licensing. Install it if you are using OpenTelemetry in Python and need to send traces to Zipkin. The only condition is that your environment runs Python 3.10 or later and has network access to a Zipkin backend.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.10 or later; Zipkin backend must be accessible at the configured endpoint.
- Low friction installation with three stable runtime dependencies (opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-sdk, requests).
- Repository is actively maintained with recent commits and no archived status.
License · maintenance · safety
Apache-2.0 (permissive) — Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing use in proprietary and open-source projects with minimal restrictions beyond attribution.
last release 2026-07-16 (29 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 2,588 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 944,115 downloads/mo, #4,670 on PyPI
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pip install opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json
from opentelemetry.exporter.zipkin.json import ZipkinExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
zipkin_exporter = ZipkinExporter()
tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
tracer_provider.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(zipkin_exporter))- Whether the package supports custom Zipkin endpoint configuration and authentication.
- Performance characteristics when exporting high-volume trace data.
- Compatibility with specific Zipkin server versions.
What it is and what it does
This package is an OpenTelemetry exporter that sends tracing spans to a Zipkin backend using JSON as the wire format. It integrates with the OpenTelemetry SDK to capture distributed traces from your application and serialize them for ingestion by Zipkin, a popular open-source distributed tracing system. The exporter depends on opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk for trace collection, and requests to handle HTTP communication with the Zipkin server.
It is part of the official OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation ecosystem and is classified as production-stable. The package supports current Python versions (3.10 through 3.14) and is actively maintained by the OpenTelemetry project. Installation is straightforward with no compiled dependencies, and it integrates into standard OpenTelemetry tracer provider setup patterns.
Use it for
- Send application traces to a Zipkin backend for centralized distributed tracing and latency analysis.
- Monitor microservice interactions and request flows across service boundaries in JSON format.
- Integrate OpenTelemetry instrumentation with existing Zipkin deployments for observability.
- Export trace spans from Python applications for root-cause analysis and performance debugging.
- Build observability pipelines that aggregate traces from multiple services into Zipkin.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
This is a production-stable, actively maintained exporter with low install friction, no known vulnerabilities, and permissive licensing. Install it if you are using OpenTelemetry in Python and need to send traces to Zipkin. The only condition is that your environment runs Python 3.10 or later and has network access to a Zipkin backend.
Install
opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction installation with three stable runtime dependencies (opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-sdk, requests). Repository is actively maintained with recent commits and no archived status.
Requires Python 3.10 or later; Zipkin backend must be accessible at the configured endpoint.
License in practice
Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing use in proprietary and open-source projects with minimal restrictions beyond attribution.
Quickstart
pip install opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json
from opentelemetry.exporter.zipkin.json import ZipkinExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
zipkin_exporter = ZipkinExporter()
tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
tracer_provider.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(zipkin_exporter))Verify before relying
- Whether the package supports custom Zipkin endpoint configuration and authentication.
- Performance characteristics when exporting high-volume trace data.
- Compatibility with specific Zipkin server versions.
Package facts
| License | Apache-2.0 permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 3 packagesopentelemetry-apiopentelemetry-sdkrequests |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 29 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 944,115 / month, #4,670 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableFramework :: OpenTelemetryFramework :: OpenTelemetry :: ExportersIntended Audience :: DevelopersProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Typing :: Typed |
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