Spring Sleuth and Zipkin:Could not find artifact io.zipkin.brave:brave-bom:pom:4.16.3-SNAPSHOT

Question

I have a Spring Boot 2.0.0 REST service where I'm trying to enable Sleuth and Zipkin to send traces to my localhost Zipkin server.

The app worked fine unti I add the two dependencies spring-cloud-starter-sleuth and spring-cloud-sleuth-zipkin to my pom.xml. Once I did that, I'm now getting a compilation error:

Project build error: Non-resolvable import POM: Could not find artifact io.zipkin.brave:brave-bom:pom:4.16.3-SNAPSHOT

I've ensured it's not a corrupt Maven package issue by deleting my .m2 folder and updating (twice).

Why am I getting this error and how can I fix it?

This is my pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>io.urig</groupId>
    <artifactId>inventory</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>inventory</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <spring-cloud.version>Finchley.M8</spring-cloud.version>
        <sleuth.version>2.0.0.M8</sleuth.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.retry</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-retry</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Sleuth automatically adds trace interceptors when in the classpath -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-sleuth</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Sends trace data to zipkin over http (defaults to http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans) -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-sleuth-zipkin</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
                <version>${spring-cloud.version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-cloud-sleuth</artifactId>
                <version>${sleuth.version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-milestones</id>
            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
</project>

Answer 1

This is really strange because you are using latest relase and in the GitHub spring-cloud-sleuth depends to <brave.version>4.17.2</brave.version>. And I think 4.16.3-SNAPSHOT version is not exists in the maven repo. (just checked 2.0.0.M8 depends to this version)

If you change to <sleuth.version>2.0.0.M7</sleuth.version> it does find the required dependencies.

https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-sleuth/blob/master/pom.xml

Answer 2

The M8 for sleuth was broken. That issue will be fixed in M9.

You can use M8 but you have to explicitly change the brave version to some release one.