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    background
    api
    integration
+   similar_projects
 
 Release Notes
 =============
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+================
+Similar projects
+================
+
+Other projects (some alive, some abandoned, some research prototypes)
+that are similar (in idea and ideal to OSprofiler).
+
+* `Zipkin`_
+* `Dapper`_
+* `Tomograph`_
+* `HTrace`_
+* `OpenTracing`_
+
+.. _Zipkin: https://twitter.github.io/zipkin/
+.. _Dapper: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html
+.. _Tomograph: https://github.com/stackforge/tomograph
+.. _HTrace: https://htrace.incubator.apache.org/
+.. _OpenTracing: http://opentracing.io/