Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 37 – Introduction to Distributed Tracing with Zipkin

The video tutorial discusses the challenges of tracing requests across multiple microservices and introduces centralized logging as a solution. It explores various tools like the ELK stack and Zipkin for consolidating logs. The tutorial explains how to implement Zipkin with RabbitMQ to handle log messages and provides an overview of request flow through microservices, highlighting the role of unique IDs in tracing requests. The video concludes with a brief on installing RabbitMQ and Zipkin.

Describe the role of RabbitMQ in the logging process of microservices.

What steps are involved in installing the Zipkin distributed tracing server?