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	<p class="lead mt-5">Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.</p>
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    <h2 class="section-head">What is SkyWalking?</h2>
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    SkyWalking is an Observability Analysis Platform and Application Performance Management system.
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      <p>Provide distributed tracing, service mesh telemetry analysis, metric aggregation and visualization all-in-one solution.</p>
     <p>Java, .Net Core, PHP, NodeJS, Golang, LUA, C++ agents supported</p>
     <p>Istio + Envoy Service Mesh supported</p>
    <img src="/images/skywalking-arch.jpg" width="" alt="Cloud Native Computing Foundation" title="Cloud Native Computing Foundation">
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                <h6 class="desc">Consistent Observability</h6>
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                    <p>Tracing </p>
                    <p>Metrics</p>
                    <p>Logging</p>
                    <p>Browser monitoring</p>
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                <h6 class="desc">Multiple Language Agents</h6>
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                    <p>Java </p>
                    <p>Golang</p>
                    <p>.Net Core</p>
                    <p>Python</p>
                    <p>NodeJS</p>
                    <p>C++</p>
                    <p>PHP</p>
                    <p>Lua</p>
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                <h6 class="desc">Lightweight</h6>
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                    <p>No big data stack </p>
                    <p>Adopt different scale</p>
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                <h6 class="desc">Modulization</h6>
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                    <p>Storage pluggable </p>
                    <p>Cluster cooridinator pluggable</p>
                    <p>Support pull/push transportation</p>
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                <h6 class="desc">Alarm Supported</h6>
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                    <p>Alarm HTTP/gRPC forwarder </p>
                    <p>Slack notification</p>
                    <p>Dingding notification</p>
                    <p>WeChat notification</p>
                    <p>Raw metrics data exporter</p>
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                <h6 class="desc">Fancy Visulization</h6>
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                    <p>Customizable dashboard</p>
                    <p>Topology map</p>
                    <p>Trace and profile explorer</p>
                    <p>CLI dashboard</p>
                    <p>IntelliJ IDE plugin, metrics side by side with codes</p>
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                <h5>SkyWalking Cloud on Kubernetes 0.1.0 is released</h5>
                <p class="time"> Nov. 16th, 2020</p>
                <p>OAPServer CRDs and controller.</p>
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                <h5>Welcome Jiapeng Liu as new committer</h5>
                <p class="time">  Nov. 5th, 2020</p>
                <p>Based on his continuous contributions, Jiapeng Liu (a.k.a <a href="https://github.com/evanljp">evanljp</a> has been voted as a new committer.</p>
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                <h5>SkyWalking Kubernetes Helm Chart 4.0.0 is released</h5>
                <p class="time"> Nov. 3rd, 2020</p>
                <p>Allow overriding default configurations files; Unify usages of different SkyWalking Versions.</p>
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                <h5>SkyWalking Client JS 0.1.0 is released</h5>
                <p class="time"> Oct. 30th, 2020</p>
                <p>Support Browser Side Monitoring. Require SkyWalking APM 8.2+.</p>
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        <h2 class="section-head">Who is using SkyWalking?</h2>
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            Various companies and organizations use SkyWalking for research, production and commercial products.
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        <img src="/images/users.png" width="" alt="SkyWalking users" title="SkyWalking users">
        <p>The <a href="https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/master/docs/powered-by.md">PoweredBy</a> page includes more users of the project.</p>
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Features request, ask questions or report bugs? Feel free to <a href="https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues/">file a issue</a> or join our <a href="http://s.apache.org/slack-invite">slack</a> workspace.
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We do a [Pull Request](https://github.com/apache/skywalking/pulls) contributions workflow on **GitHub**. New users are always welcome!
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For announcement of latest features etc on <a href="https://twitter.com/asfskywalking">@ASFSkyWalking</a>.
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