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kristofa committed Jan 19, 2014
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[Brave](https://github.com/kristofa/brave) SpanCollector that is used to submit spans to the [Zipkin](https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/) span-collector-service or Scribe.
Advantage is that you can reuse the Zipkin back-end (zipkin-collector-service, Cassandra back-end store, zipkin-query, zipkin-web zipkin web).
[Brave](https://github.com/kristofa/brave) SpanCollector that is used to submit spans to the [Zipkin](https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/) span-collector-service or Scribe
or Flume configured with Scribe source.

![Zipkin SpanCollector overview](https://raw.github.com/wiki/kristofa/brave/ZipkinSpanCollector.png)


If you use this SpanCollector you can reuse the the Zipkin back-end (zipkin-collector-service, Cassandra back-end store, zipkin-query, zipkin-web zipkin web).
For information on how to set up the Zipkin backend components see [here](http://twitter.github.io/zipkin/install.html).

The brave-zipkin-spancollector can also be used as an example of how to communicate with the Zipkin Collector from Java.
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