Apache SkyWalking

SkyWalking: APM (application performance monitor) tool for distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.

Abstract

SkyWalking started as a distributed tracing system in 2015. From 5.x, it evolved to the fully functional Application Performance Management system. It is used for tracing, monitoring, diagnose distributed systems, especially based on microservices, cloud native and container, including:

Distributed tracing and context propagation
Application, instance, service metrics analysis
Root cause analysis
Application topology map analysis
Application and service dependency analysis
Slow service detected
Performance optimization

Core features

Multiple languages instrumentation agent or libraries
- Native Java auto instrumentation agent. Trace and monitor your cluster without changing any source codes
- Community instrumentation agent or libraries
  - .NET Core
  - Node.js
Multiple storage backends: ElasticSearch, H2
OpenTracing compatible
- Native Java auto instrumentation agent could work with OpenTracing APIs in the same context
Lightweight and powerful backend aggregation and analysis capabilities
Modern and cool Web UI
Log integration
Alarm for slow or unstable(low SLA) application, instance and service
[Incubating] Support accepting other tracer data formats.
- Zipkin JSON, Thrift, Protobuf v1 and v2 formats, powered by OpenZipkin libs
- Jaeger in Zipkin Thrift or JSON v1/v2 formats

Announcement

After SkyWalking 5.0.0-beta2 released, all core features have been provided. For 5 series, we are trying to make them stable from now. At the same time, we have already begun our works for 6 series, in branch 6.0. It will be a long way to have the first alpha release for it. So if you want to take part in the challengeable works, welcome, but don't consider to use that. Please read the 6.0 documents first.

Document

5.x Architecture

Code of conduct

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