How to disable zipkin reporter in spring boot 3?

Question

In spring boot 2 it was possible to disable distributed tracing during development as described here. Locally, traces were still generated but not exported.

In spring boot 3 it is possible it disable tracing at all with:

     management.tracing.enabled=false

How can I disable the zipkin reporter or distributed tracing in spring boot 3 but keep local tracing on?

Votary

You have to exclude io.zipkin.reporter2:zipkin-reporter-brave dependency – Saddlery

@Saddlery it removes zipkin, but we need to just disable so we dont have separate builds with or without zipkin. – Silkstocking

Answer 1

Maybe by setting this property to 0.0?

management.tracing.sampling.probability: 0.0

Stalagmite

This actualy doesn't help. App anyway tries to send spans to zipkin url at first call. – Walhalla

Should not be accepted answer as it does not solve problem – Silkstocking

Answer 2

You can disable zipkin via spring config:

spring:
  autoconfigure:
    exclude: org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.tracing.zipkin.ZipkinAutoConfiguration

Roana

Answer 3

After going through a lot of posts, I concluded that it is not supported to-date. So the workaround that I have for now have three pieces

1.

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = ZipkinAutoConfiguration.class)
public class SomeSpringApplication {
    ....
}

@Configuration
@Import(ZipkinAutoConfiguration.class)
@ConditionalOnProperty(prefix = "management.tracing.zipkin", name = "enabled", matchIfMissing = true)
public class ZipKinEnvConfig {
}

3. In your properties file:

   management.tracing.zipkin.enabled=false

If this property exists as false, local traces will work and not sent to Zipkin. If this property is true or not existing, traces will be sent out. I believe this is the same behavior as Spring 2.X property. The only annoying part to make this generic is the annotation on SpringBootApplication file :(

Daybook

Answer 4

In Spring Boot >=3.0 and <3.4 you need to exclude autoconfig:

spring:
  autoconfigure:
    exclude: org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.tracing.zipkin.ZipkinAutoConfiguration

Since Spring Boot 3.4 you can use property to disable/enable exporting spans to zipkin. So no need for excluding autocofig.

management:
  zipkin:
    tracing:
      export:
        enabled: false

Silkstocking

Answer 5

Check and remove this dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.zipkin.reporter2</groupId>
    <artifactId>zipkin-reporter-brave</artifactId>
</dependency>

or any other reporter dependency...

Patsypatt

We want to disable zipkin not remove. – Silkstocking