Apache SkyWalking

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

Abstract

SkyWalking is an open source APM system, including monitoring, tracing, diagnosing capabilities for distributed system in Cloud Native architecture. The core features are following.

• Service, service instance, endpoint metrics analysis
• Root cause analysis
• Service topology map analysis
• Service, service instance and endpoint dependency analysis
• Slow services and endpoints detected
• Performance optimization
• Distributed tracing and context propagation
• Database access metrics. Detect slow database access statements(including SQL statements).
• Alarm

SkyWalking supports to collect telemetry (traces and metrics) data from multiple sources and multiple formats, including

1. Java, .NET Core, NodeJS and PHP auto-instrument agents in SkyWalking format
2. Go agent.
3. LUA agent, especially for Nginx, OpenResty.
4. Envoy gRPC Access Log Service (ALS) format in Istio controlled service mesh.
5. Istio telemetry format.
6. Envoy Metrics Service format.
7. Zipkin v1/v2 format.
8. Jaeger gRPC format.

Document

• 7.x Documentation, dev version.
• 7.0.0 Documentation.
• 6.6 Documentation.
• 6.5 Documentation.

The documentation links works after the official release.

Downloads

Please head to the releases page to download a release of Apache SkyWalking.

Code of conduct

This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please follow the REPORTING GUIDELINES to report unacceptable behavior.

Live Demo

Host in Beijing. Go to demo.

Video on youtube.com

Screenshot

Dashboard
Topology Map	Trace

Compiling project

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Contact Us

• Submit an issue
• Mail list: dev@skywalking.apache.org. Mail to dev-subscribe@skywalking.apache.org, follow the reply to subscribe the mail list.
• Join skywalking channel at Apache Slack. If the link is not working, find the latest one at Apache INFRA WIKI.
• QQ Group: 392443393(2000/2000, not available), 901167865(available)

Who Uses SkyWalking?

Hundreds of companies and organizations use SkyWalking for research, production, and commercial product.

The PoweredBy page includes more users of the project. Users are encouraged to add themselves to there.

Landscapes

  

SkyWalking enriches the CNCF CLOUD NATIVE Landscape.

Our project enriches the OpenAPM Landscape!

License

Apache 2.0 License.