skywalking-java/docs/en/setup/backend/backend-telemetry.md

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Telemetry for backend

In default, the telemetry is off, like this

telemetry:
  none:

Prometheus

Prometheus is supported as telemetry implementor. By using this, prometheus collects metric from skywalking backend.

Set prometheus to provider. The endpoint open at http://0.0.0.0:1234/ and http://0.0.0.0:1234/metrics.

telemetry:
  prometheus:

Set host and port if needed.

telemetry:
  prometheus:
    host: 127.0.0.1
    port: 1543

Grafana Visualization

Provide two grafana dashboard settings.

  1. Use SkyWalking trace-mode dashboard when SkyWalking is used with tracing agent.
  2. Use SkyWalking mesh-mode dashboard when SkyWalking is used with service mesh telemetry, including istio, envoy.