🆚 Istio vs. Zipkin
- 📈 Istio is much more popular than Zipkin.
- 🌎 Istio is more popular in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Zipkin is more popular in Germany, Australia, and Finland.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Istio
ZipkinType
Load balancer
Application monitoring tool
About
Istio is an open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in 
Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments.
It can run with 
Envoy proxies injected into each service or in a proxy-free ambient mode, and provides canary releases, load balancing, circuit breakers, mutual TLS authentication, and observability through metrics, logs, and distributed traces for Prometheus and 
Grafana.
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system originally developed by Twitter.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Bastrop, Texas, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Istio load balancer is 6 times more popular than Zipkin.
Total websites
Market share
Application Monitoring
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Istio is more popular in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, while Zipkin is more popular in Germany, Australia, and Finland.
United States
Germany
Canada
United Kingdom
Spain
China
Brazil
India
Korea
France
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Spain in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Canada in the Application Monitoring category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Application Monitoring category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Istio is more popular than Zipkin in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Internet Services
Real Estate
Finance/Banking
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.