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# Protocols
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There are two types of protocols list here.
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- **Probe Protocol**. Include the descriptions and definitions about how agent send collected metric data and traces, also the formats of each entities.
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- **Query Protocol**. The backend provide query capability to SkyWalking own UI and others. These queries are based on GraphQL.
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## Probe Protocols
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They also related to the probe group, for understand that, look [Concepts and Designs](../concepts-and-designs/README.md) document.
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These groups are **Language based native agent protocol**, **Service Mesh protocol** and **3rd-party instrument protocol**.
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### Language based native agent protocol
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This protocol is combined from two parts:
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* [Cross Process Propagation Headers Protocol](Skywalking-Cross-Process-Propagation-Headers-Protocol-v1.md) is for in-wire propagation.
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which is usually used to carrier the necessary info to build trace.
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* [SkyWalking Trace Data Protocol](Trace-Data-Protocol.md) define the communication way and format between agent and backend.
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### Service Mesh probe protocol
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The probe in sidecar or proxy could use this protocol to send data to backendEnd. This service provided by gRPC, requires
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the following key info:
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1. Service Name or ID at both sides.
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1. Service Instance Name or ID at both sides.
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1. Endpoint. URI in HTTP, service method full signature in gRPC.
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1. Latency. In milliseconds.
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1. Response code in HTTP
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1. Status. Success or fail.
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1. Protocol. HTTP, gRPC
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1. DetectPoint. In Service Mesh sidecar, `client` or `server`. In normal L7 proxy, value is `proxy`.
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### 3rd-party instrument protocol
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3rd-party instrument protocols are not defined by SkyWalking. They are just protocols/formats, which SkyWalking is compatible and
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could receive from their existed libraries. SkyWalking starts with supporting Zipkin v1, v2 data formats.
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Backend is based on modulization principle, so very easy to extend a new receiver to support new protocol/format. |