Zipkin

Kong Gateway 3.8.x

• Removed redundant deprecation warnings. #13220
• Improved the accuracy of sampling decisions. #13275

Kong Gateway 3.4.x

• Fixed an issue where traces weren’t being generated correctly when instrumentations were enabled. #10983

Kong Gateway 3.1.x

• Added the parameter response_header_for_traceid.

Kong Gateway 3.0.x

• Added support for including the HTTP path in the span name with the http_span_name configuration parameter. #8150
• Added support for socket connect and send/read timeouts through the connect_timeout, send_timeout, and read_timeout configuration parameters. This can help mitigate ngx.timer saturation when upstream collectors are unavailable or slow. #8735

Kong Gateway 2.7.x

• Added a new parameter: local_service_name.
• Added a new ignore option for the header_type parameter.

Kong Gateway 2.5.x

• The plugin now includes the following tags: kong.route, kong.service_name, and kong.route_name.

Kong Gateway 2.4.x

• Added support for OT and Jaeger style uber-trace-id headers.
• The plugin now allows insertion of custom tags on the Zipkin request trace.
• The plugin now allows the creation of baggage items on child spans.

Kong Gateway 2.3.x

• Added the default_header_type and static_tags configuration parameters.