Stalk Studio

Stalk Studio is a highly flexible trace analysis tool for Jaeger and Zipkin.

• Search & import traces directly from Jaeger and Zipkin services
• Drag & drop JSON trace files exported from Jaeger and Zipkin
• Intuitive UI for extracting useful information from complex traces
• Supports viewing & inspecting multiple traces on the same stage to give you a bigger perspective
• and more...

Main Features

📖 Tabular Perspective

In addition to the timeline view, Stalk Studio provides table views for spans and logs to pinpoint interesting events quickly.

• Customizable columns: add/remove columns for span tags, process tags, log fields

• Sortable columns: sort spans by total time, self time, operation name, or any visible column

• Filter spans & logs

• Flexible panes: split views can be handy

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⚙️ High Customizability

Stalk Studio is built for being as flexible as possible to cover your changing needs when analyzing different traces. You can customize the timeline in the following ways:

• Span Grouping: The spans in the same group are drawn vertically together. You may think like horizontal lanes separated from each other. Uninteresting groups can be collapsed to prevent visual clutter.

• Span Coloring: Change timeline span colors by operation name, service name, however you want.

• Draw Layout: Change where spans should be rendered vertically. There are 3 options provided: fill, compact, and waterfall style.

• Span Labelling: Change the text rendered on a span bar, if it has enough width to display.

• Tooltip Contents: Change the contents of the tooltip displayed when you hover a span bar. You can add/remove interested span tags and process tags as your needs.

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👩‍💻 Built for developers in mind

If the built-in customization options don't fill your needs, you can always write your own custom JavaScript / TypeScript code to do the following:

• Change span grouping

• Change span labeling

• Change span coloring

• Filter spans & logs in table views

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📡 Live Collector

In addition to its analysis capabilities, Stalk Studio has live collector servers built-in that mimicks Jaeger and Zipkin collector interface. So if you have services that already instrumented with Jaeger and Zipkin, you can quickly capture & inspect low-volume traces just by changing the reporting URL of your instrumentations. It can be useful for debugging and development purposes.

• Jaeger Agent: accepts jaeger.thrift in compact Thrift protocol over UDP.

• Jaeger Collector: accepts jaeger.thrift in binary Thrift protocol over HTTP.

• Zipkin Collector: accepts spans in JSON format over HTTP.

Download

Go to releases page.

Building & Development

Development

You must have node.js >= 12 installed on your machine.

• Clone the repo
• Install dependencies: npm i
• Get started with webpack-dev-server w/ live-reload: npm start

Building

• Build the project in production mode: npm run build
• Package the electron project into an executable: npm run package
• Check out /dist folder for output

Distribution

• Build the project in production mode: npm run build
• Make distribution files (*.dmg, *.AppImage, *-setup.exe)
  • Generates distribution files for your platform: npm run distribute
  • Generate distribution files for Windows and Linux in Docker: node ./scripts/electron-build-win-and-linux-on-docker.sh
• Check out /dist folder for outputs