Sky Walking
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SkyWalking: Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure, also known Distributed Tracer。
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# 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](http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html), [read Simplified Chinese Version](http://duanple.blog.163.com/blog/static/70971767201329113141336/)
* Support popular rpc frameworks, such as [dubbo](https://github.com/alibaba/dubbo), [dubbox](https://github.com/dangdangdotcom/dubbox), [motan](https://github.com/weibocom/motan) etc., trigger email-alert when application occurs unexpected exception。
* 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
* Tomcat 7
* Tomcat 8
### database
* mysql
* oracle
* h2
* easily extend to support sybase, sqlserver, jtds, db2, informix
### rpc framework
* dubbo
* dubbox
* httpClient
* motan
### cache
* jedis
# Contributors
* 吴晟 [wusheng](https://github.com/wu-sheng) wu.sheng@foxmail.com
* 张鑫 [zhangxin](https://github.com/ascrutae)
_Chinese Articles about sky-walking and distributed tracer_
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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](http://www.oneapm.com/) will provide financial support for the project in 2016-2017.
Thanks all users of sky walking project.
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# Quick View
* distributed tracer



* alarm mail

# Document
* [WIKI](https://github.com/wu-sheng/sky-walking/wiki)