README.md

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

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# 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(URI) metrics analysis
- Root cause analysis. Profile the code on the runtime powered by in-process agent and ebpf profiler.
- Service topology map analysis
- Service instance and endpoint(URI) dependency analysis
- Slow services and endpoints detecting
- Performance optimization
- Distributed tracing and context propagation
- Database access metrics. Detect slow database access statements(including SQL statements)
- Message Queue performance and consuming latency monitoring
- Browser performance monitoring
- Infrastructure(VM, network, disk etc.) monitoring
- Collaboration across metrics, traces, and logs
- Alerting

<img src="https://skywalking.apache.org/images/home/architecture.svg?t=20220513"/>

SkyWalking supports to collect telemetry (metrics, traces, and logs) data from multiple sources
and multiple formats,
including
1. Java, .NET Core, NodeJS, PHP, and Python auto-instrument agents.
2. Go, C++, and Rust SDKs.
3. [Agent profiling](https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/latest/en/concepts-and-designs/sdk-profiling/) for Java and Python.
4. [ebpf profiling](https://github.com/apache/skywalking-rover) for C, C++, Golang, and Rust.
5. LUA agent especially for Nginx, OpenResty and Apache APISIX.
6. Browser agent.
7. Service Mesh Observability. Control plane and data plane.
8. Metrics system, including Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer(Spring Sleuth), Zabbix.
9. Logs.
10. Zipkin v1/v2 trace.(No Analysis)

SkyWalking OAP is using the STAM(Streaming Topology Analysis Method) to analysis topology in the tracing based agent scenario 
for better performance. Read [the paper of STAM](https://wu-sheng.github.io/STAM/) for more details.

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

NOTICE, SkyWalking 8.0+ uses [v3 protocols](docs/en/protocols/README.md). They are incompatible with previous releases.

# 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.

# Live Demo
- Find the [live demo](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/latest/readme/) to set up preview deployment quickly.

# 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.
* Twitter, [ASFSkyWalking](https://twitter.com/AsfSkyWalking)
* QQ Group: 901167865(Recommended), 392443393
* [bilibili B站 视频](https://space.bilibili.com/390683219)

# Our Users
Hundreds of companies and organizations use SkyWalking for research, production, and commercial product.
Visit our [website](http://skywalking.apache.org/users/) to find the user page.

# License
[Apache 2.0 License.](LICENSE)