Sky Walking

SkyWalking: Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure, also known Distributed Tracer。

Abstract

• An open source Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure, also known a ditributed tracer.
• Based on Google Dapper Paper: Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure, Simplified Chines
• Supports popular rpc frameworks, such as dubbo, dubbox, motan etc., supports email-alert when application occurs unexpected exception。
• Execution time of creating span than 100μs.
• Easy to deploy, even in product mode (since 2.0) . No need of Hadoop, HBase, or Cassandra Cluster.
• Pure Java server implements. provide gRPC (since 2.0) and HTTP (since 2.1) cross-platform spans collecting service.

Supported components

• web container
  • Tomcat7
  • Tomcat8
• database
  • mysql
  • oracle
  • h2
  • easily extend to support sybase, sqlserver, jtds, db2, informix
• rpc framework
  • dubbo (tested 2.5.3)
  • dubbox (tested 2.8.4-dubbo protocol, 2.8.4-rest protocol)
  • httpClient 4.x
  • motan (tested 0.1.2)
• cache
  • jedix 2.x

Contributors

• 吴晟 wusheng   [email protected]
• 张鑫 zhangxin   

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In October 2016, Sky Walking won OneAPM Open Source Achievement Award. The award appreciates sky walking for its "contribution to popularization of APM technology".
OneAPM will provide financial support for the project in 2016-2017.

Thanks all users of sky walking project.

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Discussion

* Mail to：[email protected] * QQ Group：392443393 * If you are using SkyWalking，[Report to us](apache#34) please. * **Developer Org of sky-walking** is https://github.com/skywalking-developer

Arch

Quick View

• distributed tracer

• alarm mail

v2.0-2016 Quick Start

1. Required of third party softwares

• JDK 1.6+ ( instruments applications can run in jdk6 )
• JDK 1.8 ( skywalking servers )
• zookeeper 3.4.6
• mysql
• redis-3.0.5

2. Download and deploy servers

• Download Server release version. Download (.tar.gz)

2.1 Run all servers in a Docker

• Docker version include all-in-one servers.
• Suitable for quick-look or test env. High performance and Scalable are not your requirements.

2.2 Deploy your own cluster

• waiting for release.

3. Download agent

4. Create users, applications and alarm rules in webui

• create user, remember your user id.
• create applications under the user, remember your application code.
• create alarm rules for each applications.

4. Start application with -javaagent

java -jar ...  -javaagent:/..ospath../skywalking-agent-x.x.jar -DuserId=x -DapplicationCode=y -Dservers=192.168.1.16:3300,192.168.1.17:3300

5. Aha, your applications are being instrumented

Recent RoadMap

• [In the schedule] v2.1-2017

  • release a version following OpenTracing.io
  • provide bridge mode lib to integrate data of system and tracer
  • provide English doc as default. Also provide Chinese version on Gitbook or Wiki
  • support log framework(log4j, log4j2, logback) to output traceid in system log.

• [Dev] v2.0-2016

  • not dependency on Hadoop or HBase, easy to deploy or maintenance
  • support simple-cluster mode
  • support docker mode in single-server-instance
  • support more plugins
    • motan rpc framework (provided)