SkyWalking Satellite: A lightweight collector/sidecar could be deployed closer to the target monitored system, to collect metrics, traces, and logs. Also, it provides advanced features, such as, local cache, format transform, sampling.
NOTICE, SkyWalking Satellite uses v3 protocols. They are incompatible with previous SkyWalking releases before SkyWalking 8.0.
Go to the download page to download all available binaries, including MacOS, Linux and Windows. Due to system compatibility problems, some plugins of SkyWalking Satellite cannot be used in Windows system. Check the corresponding documentation to see whether the plugin is available on Windows.
As SkyWalking Satellite is using Makefile, compiling the project is as easy as executing a command in the root directory of the project.
git clone https://github.com/apache/skywalking-satellite cd skywalking-satellite make build
If you want to know more details about compiling, please read the doc.
| Commands | Flags | Description |
|---|---|---|
| start | --config FILE, -c FILE | Load configuration from FILE. (default: “configs/satellite_config.yaml” or read value from SATELLITE_CONFIG env). |
| start | ---shutdown_hook_time TIME, -t TIME | The hook TIME for graceful shutdown, and the time unit is seconds. (default: “5” or read value from SATELLITE_SHUTDOWN_HOOK_TIME env). |
| start | --help, -h | Show help. |
| docs | --output PATH, -o PATH | The document output root path. (default: “docs” or read value from SATELLITE_DOC_PATH env) |
| docs | --menu PATH, -m PATH | The menu file path. (default: “/menu.yml” or read value from SATELLITE_MENU_PATH env) |
| docs | --plugins PATH, -p PATH | The plugin list dir. (default: “/plugins” or read value from SATELLITE_PLUGIN_PATH env) |
| docs | --help, -h | Show help. |
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