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README.md

SkyWalking NodeJS Agent

SkyWalking-NodeJS: The NodeJS Agent for Apache SkyWalking, which provides the native tracing abilities for NodeJS project.

SkyWalking: an APM(application performance monitor) system, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.

Set up NodeJS Agent

SkyWalking NodeJS SDK requires SkyWalking 8.0+.

import Agent from 'skywalking';

Agent.start({
  serviceName: '',
  serviceInstance: '',
  collectorAddress: '',
  authorization: '',
  maxBufferSize: 1000,
});

The supported environment variables are as follows:

Environment Variable	Description	Default
`SW_AGENT_NAME`	The name of the service	`your-nodejs-service`
`SW_AGENT_INSTANCE`	The name of the service instance	Randomly generated
`SW_AGENT_COLLECTOR_BACKEND_SERVICES`	The backend OAP server address	`127.0.0.1:11800`
`SW_AGENT_AUTHENTICATION`	The authentication token to verify that the agent is trusted by the backend OAP, as for how to configure the backend, refer to the yaml.	not set
`SW_AGENT_LOGGING_LEVEL`	The logging level, could be one of `CRITICAL`, `FATAL`, `ERROR`, `WARN`(`WARNING`), `INFO`, `DEBUG`	`INFO`
`SW_AGENT_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE`	The maximum buffer size before sending the segment data to backend	`'1000'`

Supported Libraries

There're some built-in plugins that support automatic instrumentation of NodeJS libraries, the complete lists are as follows:

Library	Plugin Name
built-in `http` module	`sw_http`

License

Apache 2.0