How to configure Spring Cloud Zipkin Server with MySQL for persistence? - mysql

Question

Which exact dependencies and application.yml configuration are required for Spring Boot/Cloud Zipkin server (potentially Zipkin Stream server) to persist the tracing data using MySQL?

Answer 1

The official documentation was helpful, but I think it didn't include all the dependencies explicitly (at least as of now). I had to do some extra research for samples to get all the required dependencies and configuration together. I wanted to share it, because I believe it could be helpful for someone else.
Spring Boot version: 1.4.0.RELEASE
Spring Cloud version: Brixton.SR4
POM:
...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.zipkin.java</groupId>
<artifactId>zipkin-server</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.zipkin.java</groupId>
<artifactId>zipkin-autoconfigure-storage-mysql</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.zipkin.java</groupId>
<artifactId>zipkin-autoconfigure-ui</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
...
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>Brixton.SR4</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
Java:
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import zipkin.server.EnableZipkinServer;
#SpringBootApplication
#EnableZipkinServer
public class ZipkinServerApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(ZipkinServerApplication.class, args);
}
}
application.yml:
spring:
datasource:
schema: classpath:/mysql.sql
url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/zipkin?autoReconnect=true
username: root
password: admin
driver-class-name: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
initialize: true
continue-on-error: true
sleuth:
enabled: false
zipkin:
storage:
type: mysql
References:
https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-sleuth/