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。
* 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](https://github.com/wu-sheng) wu.sheng@foxmail.com
* 张鑫 [zhangxin](https://github.com/ascrutae)
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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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# Discussion
* Mail to:wu.sheng@foxmail.com
* QQ Group:392443393
* If you are using SkyWalking,[Report to us](https://github.com/wu-sheng/sky-walking/issues/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](https://github.com/wu-sheng/sky-walking/releases) (.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
[  ](https://bintray.com/wu-sheng/skywalking/com.a.eye.skywalking-agent/_latestVersion)
## 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
```shell
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)