Hi,

When sharedSpanContext is set to false, which is the default in istio, all spans sent from sidecars to zipkin is marked as kind = CLIENT, at least in my setup.

I wonder whether this is by design. My understanding is that egress traffic should get kind = CLIENT, whereas ingress traffic should have kind = SERVER, regardless of whether shared spans are used or not.

Setup: k8s, istio (tested both 1.7 and 1.6), zipkin tracing. Tested HTTP traffic with curl, using the BookInfo sample.

Please advice.

Best regards,
Lars Andreas Ek