/div></div><div class="faq-block faq-block--collapsed" id=external-zipkin><div class=faq-block-question><span class=faq-block-question__text>Can Istio send tracing information to an external Zipkin-compatible backend?</span><div class=faq-block-question__icon><svg class="icon dropdown-arrow"><use xlink:href="/v1.16/img/icons.svg#dropdown-arrow"/></svg></div></div><div class=faq-block-answer><p>To do so, you must you use the fully qualified domain name of the Zipkin-compatible instance. For example:
<code>zi