README.md

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


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# Document
- [Documents in English](docs/README.md)


# 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
<img src="https://skywalkingtest.github.io/page-resources/5.0.0-beta2/Dashboard.png"/>


- [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

# Users
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- [Users list](docs/users.md)
- [Submit new user to us.](https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/issues/443)

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  <br/>Our project enriches the <a href="https://openapm.io">OpenAPM Landscape!</a>
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# License
[Apache 2.0 License.](/LICENSE)