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# Apache SkyWalking
**SkyWalking**: an APM(application performance monitor) system, especially designed for
microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.
# 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 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 multiple sources
and multiple formats,
including
1. Java, .NET Core and NodeJS auto-instrument agents in SkyWalking format
2. Istio telemetry format
3. Zipkin v1/v2 formats
# How to use (WIP)
# License
[Apache 2.0 License.](/LICENSE)