# Using Kubernetes Pod Metadata to Improve Zipkin Traces

DevFeed: [Using Kubernetes Pod Metadata to Improve Zipkin Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/using-kubernetes-pod-metadata-to-improve-zipkin-traces-2172.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//using-kubernetes-pod-metadata-to-improve-zipkin-traces>)

Published: 2018-09-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>)

Tags: [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how SoundCloud uses Kubernetes pod metadata to improve Zipkin service names and span data for microservice traces.

## Source excerpt

SoundCloud is built on hundreds of microservices. This creates many challenges, among them debugging latency issues across the services...