The top alternatives to Zipkin are Jaeger, Grafana Tempo and Elastic Observability, ranked by Staquest on relevance, shared use cases, and pricing. Jaeger is the strongest free option.
Staquest ranks Jaeger as the top alternative to Zipkin — Open-source end-to-end distributed tracing system.. The full ranked list above compares 10 options.
Jaeger offers a free tier and is the highest-ranked free alternative to Zipkin in Staquest's analysis.
Staquest identifies 10 tools similar to Zipkin using graph relationships, embedding similarity, and shared categories. The closest are Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, Elastic Observability.
Jaeger is an open-source alternative to Zipkin listed in this ranking.
Alternatives are ranked by verified relationships, semantic similarity, and category overlap.
