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layout: LayoutHome
description: 'Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, K8s, Mesos) architectures.'
start: Quick Start
what:
  title: What is SkyWalking
  content:
    - SkyWalking is an Observability Analysis Platform and Application Performance Management system.
    - Provide distributed tracing, service mesh telemetry analysis, metric aggregation and visualization all-in-one solution.

feature:
  title: Feature List
  content:
    - Consistent in multiple scenarios. supported telemetry sources from language agents and service mesh.
    - Multiple language agents, Java, .Net Core and NodeJS auto instrument agents.
    - Light. No big data platform required, even observing the high payload cluster.
    - Modulization. Have multiple options for UI, storage, cluster managements.
    - Alarm supported.
    - Cool visualization solution.

user:
  title: Who is using SkyWalking
  content: Various companies and organizations use SkyWalking for research, production and commercial products. 

news:
  title: Events & News
  content:
  - header: Welcome Weiyi Liu as new committer
    content: Based on his continuous contributions, Weiyi Liu (a.k.a [wayilau](https://github.com/wayilau)) has been voted as a new committer.
    time: Dec. 10th 2019
  - header: SkyWalking CLI 0.1.0 release
    content: SkyWalking CLI 0.1.0 is generally available, basic functionalities are supported by multiple commands.
    time: Dec. 10th 2019
  - header: Welcome Qiuxia Fan as new committer
    content: Based on his continuous contributions, Qiuxia Fan (a.k.a [Fine0830](https://github.com/Fine0830)) has been voted as a new committer.
    time: Nov. 23th 2019
  - header: SkyWalking 6.5.0 release
    content: New metrics comparison view in UI. Dynamic Alert setting supported. JDK9-12 supported in backend.
    time: Nov. 15th 2019