* 核心理论为[Google Dapper论文:Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure](http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html),英语有困难的同学可参考[国内翻译](http://duanple.blog.163.com/blog/static/70971767201329113141336/)
* SkyWalking is an open source Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure, also been known as APM(Application Performance Management) tool. SkyWalking provides a solution to help monitor and analysis a Large-Scale Distributed Systems.
* SkyWalking supports popular rpc frameworks, such as [dubbo](https://github.com/alibaba/dubbo), [dubbox](https://github.com/dangdangdotcom/dubbox), etc., supports email-alert when application occurs unexpected exception。
* SkyWalking's basic API, execution time of blocking saving span must less than 100μs.