What is Apache SkyWalking?
It is an open source application performance monitoring for distributed system. It provides tracing, service mesh observability, metrics analysis, alarm and visualization.
Apache SkyWalking is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Apache SkyWalking is an open source tool with 23.9K GitHub stars and 6.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apache SkyWalking's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Apache SkyWalking?
Developers
13 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apache SkyWalking.
Apache SkyWalking Integrations
Node.js, Java, PHP, Golang, and C++ are some of the popular tools that integrate with Apache SkyWalking. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Apache SkyWalking.
Apache SkyWalking's Features
- Service, service instance, endpoint metrics analysis
- Root cause analysis. Profile the code on the runtime
- Service topology map analysis
- Service, service instance and endpoint dependency analysis
- Slow services and endpoints detected
- Performance optimization
- Distributed tracing and context propagation
- Database access metrics. Detect slow database access statements(including SQL statements).
- Browser performance monitoring
Apache SkyWalking Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Apache SkyWalking?
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Sentry
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