A Kong plugin for propogating zipkin spans and reporting spans to a zipkin server - this plugin has been moved into https://github.com/Kong/kong, please open issues and PRs in that repo
[error] 87#0: *5293734 failed to run log_by_lua*:
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/zipkin/handler.lua:332:
attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'balancer_latency' (a nil value) stack traceback:
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/zipkin/handler.lua:332: in function </usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/plugins/zipkin/handler.lua:266>
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/init.lua:265: in function 'execute_plugins_iterator'
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/init.lua:1286: in function 'log'
log_by_lua(nginx-kong.conf:102):2: in main chunk while logging request, client: ...
It seems related to the fact that when the load-balancer fails, the latency information is missing.
https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/6820