README.md

Apache SkyWalking
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**SkyWalking**: an APM(application performance monitor) system, especially designed for
microservices, cloud native and container-based architectures.

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# Abstract
**SkyWalking** is an open source APM system, including monitoring, tracing, diagnosing capabilities for distributed system
in Cloud Native architecture.

* Distributed Tracing
  * End-to-end distributed tracing. Service topology analysis, service-centric observability and APIs dashboards.
* Agents for your stack
  * Java, .Net Core, PHP, NodeJS, Golang, LUA, Rust, C++, Client JavaScript and Python agents with active development and maintenance.
* eBPF early adoption
  * Rover agent works as metrics collector and profiler powered by eBPF to diagnose CPU and network performance.
* Scaling
  * 100+ billion telemetry data could be collected and analyzed from one SkyWalking cluster.
* Mature Telemetry Ecosystems Supported
  * Metrics, Traces, and Logs from mature ecosystems are supported, e.g. Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Zabbix, Fluentd
* Native APM Database
  * BanyanDB, an observability database, created in 2022, aims to ingest, analyze and store telemetry/observability data.
* Consistent Metrics Aggregation
  * SkyWalking native meter format and widely known metrics format(OpenCensus, OTLP, Telegraf, Zabbix, e.g.) are processed through the same script pipeline.
* Log Management Pipeline
  * Support log formatting, extract metrics, various sampling policies through script pipeline in high performance.
* Alerting and Telemetry Pipelines
  * Support service-centric, deployment-centric, API-centric alarm rule setting. Support forwarding alarms and all telemetry data to 3rd party.

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# Documentation
- [Official documentation](https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/#SkyWalking)


# Downloads
Please head to the [releases page](https://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/) to download a release of Apache SkyWalking.

# Compiling project
Follow this [document](docs/en/guides/How-to-build.md).

# Code of conduct
This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant [code of conduct](https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct). By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.
Please follow the [REPORTING GUIDELINES](https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct#reporting-guidelines) to report unacceptable behavior.

# Live Demo
- Find the [live demo](https://skywalking.apache.org/#demo) and [screenshots](https://skywalking.apache.org/#arch) on our website.
- Follow the [showcase](https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/skywalking-showcase/next/readme/) to set up preview deployment quickly.

# Contact Us
* Mail list: **dev@skywalking.apache.org**. Mail to `dev-subscribe@skywalking.apache.org`, follow the reply to subscribe the mail list.
* Send `Request to join SkyWalking slack` mail to the mail list(`dev@skywalking.apache.org`), we will invite you in.
* Twitter, [ASFSkyWalking](https://twitter.com/AsfSkyWalking)
* QQ Group: 901167865, 392443393
* [bilibili B站 视频](https://space.bilibili.com/390683219)

# Our Users
Hundreds of companies and organizations use SkyWalking for research, production, and commercial product.
Visit our [website](http://skywalking.apache.org/users/) to find the user page.

# License
[Apache 2.0 License.](LICENSE)