title: 'Zipkin Integration' sidebar_label: 'Zipkin' description: 'Learn how to integrate Spice with Zipkin tracing.' tags:
Spice supports distributed tracing by integrating with Zipkin and compatible tracing systems.
Enable Zipkin tracing by configuring the runtime.tracing section in spicepod.yaml:
Trace data will be available in the Zipkin UI at http://your_zipkin_host:9411. See the Zipkin Quickstart to run a test server.
A trace in Spice represents a completed task (such as a SQL query, AI chat completion, or tool call). Each trace is a unique span, recording execution time, inputs, outputs, and errors.
For more details, see task_history.