skywalking/docs/en/concepts-and-designs/README.md

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Concepts and Designs

Concepts and Designs help you to learn and understand the SkyWalking and the landscape.

  • What is SkyWalking?
    • Overview. Provides a high-level description and introduction, including the problems it solves.
    • Project Goals. Provides the goals, which SkyWalking is trying to focus and provide features about them.
  • Probe
    • Introduction. Lead readers to understand what the probe is, how many different probes existed and why need them.
    • Service auto instrument agent. Introduce what the auto instrument agents do and which languages does SkyWalking already support.
    • Manual instrument SDK. Introduce the role of the manual instrument SDKs in SkyWalking ecosystem.
  • Observability Analysis Platform Backend
    • Overview. Provides a high level introduction about the OAP backend.
    • Observability Analysis Language. Introduces the core languages, which is designed for aggregation behaviour definition.
    • Query in OAP. Introduces how to query data from backend, whether a simple metric data or topology map, even trace or log.