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Apache SkyWalking
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**SkyWalking**: an APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system, especially designed for
microservices, cloud native and container-based architectures.

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# Abstract
**SkyWalking** is an open-source APM system that provides monitoring, tracing and diagnosing capabilities for distributed systems in Cloud Native architectures.

* Distributed Tracing
  * End-to-end distributed tracing. Service topology analysis, service-centric observability and APIs dashboards.
* Agents for your stack
  * Java, .Net Core, PHP, NodeJS, Golang, Lua, Rust, C++, Client JavaScript and Python agents with active development and maintenance.
* eBPF early adoption
  * Rover agent works as a monitor and profiler powered by eBPF to monitor Kubernetes deployments and diagnose CPU and network performance.
* Scaling
  * 100+ billion telemetry data could be collected and analyzed from one SkyWalking cluster.
* Mature Telemetry Ecosystems Supported
  * Metrics, Traces, and Logs from mature ecosystems are supported, e.g. Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Zabbix, Fluentd
* Native APM Database
  * BanyanDB, an observability database, created in 2022, aims to ingest, analyze and store telemetry/observability data.
* Consistent Metrics Aggregation
  * SkyWalking native meter format and widely known metrics format (OpenTelemetry, Telegraf, Zabbix, e.g.) are processed through the same script pipeline.
* Log Management Pipeline
  * Support log formatting, extract metrics, various sampling policies through script pipeline in high performance.
* Alerting and Telemetry Pipelines
  * Support service-centric, deployment-centric, API-centric alarm rule setting. Support forwarding alarms and all telemetry data to 3rd party.
* AI Power Enabled
  * Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) analyze observability data to identify patterns and enhance capabilities, such as recognizing HTTP URI patterns and automatically calculating metric baselines for intelligent alerting, improving anomaly detection.

# Live Demo

[<img src="https://skywalking.apache.org/images/home/horizon-3d-map.png" alt="SkyWalking 3D Infrastructure Map"/>](https://skywalking.apache.org/3d-map-app/#/3d/map)

- Explore the [SkyWalking 3D Infrastructure Map interactive demo](https://skywalking.apache.org/3d-map-app/#/3d/map), a 3D visualization of the service topology powered by [Horizon UI](https://github.com/apache/skywalking-horizon-ui).
- Find the [SkyWalking live demo with native UI and Grafana](https://skywalking.apache.org/#demo), and [screenshots](https://skywalking.apache.org/#arch) on our website.
- Follow the [showcase](https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/skywalking-showcase/next/readme/) to set up a preview deployment quickly.

# Documentation
- [Official documentation](https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/#SkyWalking)

# Downloads
Please head to the [releases page](https://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/) to download a release of Apache SkyWalking.

# Compiling project
Follow this [document](docs/en/guides/How-to-build.md).

# Code of conduct
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant [code of conduct](https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct). By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.
Please follow the [REPORTING GUIDELINES](https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct#reporting-guidelines) to report unacceptable behavior.

# Contact Us
* Mail list: **dev@skywalking.apache.org**. Mail to `dev-subscribe@skywalking.apache.org`, follow the reply to subscribe the mail list.
* Send `Request to join SkyWalking slack` mail to the mail list(`dev@skywalking.apache.org`), we will invite you in.
* For Chinese speaker, send `[CN] Request to join SkyWalking slack` mail to the mail list(`dev@skywalking.apache.org`), we will invite you in.
* Twitter, [ASFSkyWalking](https://twitter.com/AsfSkyWalking)
* [bilibili B站 视频](https://space.bilibili.com/390683219)
* [掘金](https://juejin.cn/user/13673577331607/posts)
  
# Our Users
Hundreds of companies and organizations use SkyWalking for research, production, and commercial purposes.
Visit our [website](http://skywalking.apache.org/users/) to find the user page.

# License
[Apache 2.0 License.](LICENSE)

Repository info

Default branch: master
Latest version: v11.0.0
Created: 07/11/2015
Last activity: 05/11/2026
License: Apache-2.0
Open issues: 27
Watchers: 805

Topics

apm dapper distributed-tracing ebpf logging metrics observability open-telemetry prometheus service-mesh skywalking telegraf web-performance zabbix

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