Run mvn clean install to build the project. Once the maven install is complete you will find akka-sample-tracing-java-1.0-allinone.jar jar file in target folder.

Run the jar using command:

java -jar akka-sample-tracing-java-1.0-allinone.jar 

In the application.conf file in resources folder you will find that we have configured Zipkin server to run at localhost and port 9410 which is the default port for running Zipkin server.

You can find details of downloading and installing Zipkin on [zipkin website] (http://zipkin.io/pages/quickstart.html).

Download the toolkit jar and save it in a folder. Run the Zipkin java: java -jar zipkin.jar

Now you will see in the java project logs that is connects to Zipkin server.

This code uses [akka-tracing] (https://github.com/levkhomich/akka-tracing) extensions for making Zipkin work with Akka toolkit.

Also read my blog on [Distributed Tracing for Microservices] (https://javaredhot.blogspot.com/2017/02/akka-with-zipkin-async-framework-with.html)

[Apache License Version 2.0] (https://github.com/tuhingupta/akka-sample-tracing-java/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)