Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 12 – Connecting Currency Exchange Microservice with Zipkin

The video tutorial explains how to integrate Zipkin for tracing requests across microservices. It covers adding necessary dependencies, configuring distributed tracing with HTTP and RabbitMQ, and setting up sampling to manage performance. The tutorial demonstrates launching the currency exchange service, testing the tracing setup, and adding logging to track requests. The importance of unique IDs for tracing and the potential architecture involving RabbitMQ for reliability are highlighted.

What is the significance of sampling configuration in distributed tracing?

How do you configure the sampler probability for tracing requests?

What are the expected outcomes of integrating the currency exchange service with Zipkin?