Apache SkyWalking
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**SkyWalking**: an APM(application performance monitor) system, especially designed for
microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.
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# Abstract
**SkyWalking** is an open source APM system, including monitoring, tracing, diagnosing capabilities for distributed system.
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
- Alarm
SkyWalking supports to collect telemetry (traces and metrics) data from different sources,
in order to provide more options
for different scenarios. For better understanding, read our documents.
# Document
- [Documents in English](docs/README.md)
# Downloads
Please head to the [releases page](ttp://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/) to download a release of Apache SkyWalking.
# Code of conduct
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to wusheng@apache.org.
# Live Demo
- Host in Beijing. [goto](http://49.4.12.44:8080/)
- Username: admin
- Password: admin
# Screenshot
- [See all screenshots](/docs/Screenshots.md)
# Compiling project
Follow this [document](https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/blob/master/docs/en/How-to-build.md).
# Contact Us
* Submit an issue
* Mail list: dev@skywalking.apache.org
* [Gitter](https://gitter.im/openskywalking/Lobby)
* QQ Group: 392443393
# Who Uses SkyWalking?
A wide variety of companies and organizations use SkyWalking for research, production and commercial product.
Here is the **User Wall** of SkyWalking.
Users are encouraged to add themselves to the [PoweredBy](docs/powered-by.md) page.
Our project enriches the OpenAPM Landscape!