**SkyWalking** started as a distributed system in 2015. From 5.x, it evolved to the fully functional [Application Performance Management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_performance_management)
system. It is used for tracing, monitoring, diagnose distributed systems, especially based on microservices, cloud native and container,
including:
- Distributed tracing and context propagation
- Application, instance, service metrics analysis
- Root cause analysis
- Application topology map analysis
- Application and service dependency analysis
- Slow service detected
- Performance optimization
# Core features
- Multiple languages instrumentation agent or libraries
- Native Java auto instrumentation agent. Trace and monitor your cluster without changing any source codes
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