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| <h1>Observability for <span class="accent">cloud-native and AI</span></h1> |
| <p class="lead"> |
| <strong class="lead-brand">Apache SkyWalking</strong> puts distributed tracing, metrics, logs, profiling and alarms |
| in one platform — across the services you run and the GenAI models they call, |
| down to tokens and cost. 10+ language agents, eBPF on Kubernetes, and a built-in |
| assistant you can ask in natural language. |
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| <img loading="lazy" src="/images/home/horizon-logs.png" alt="SkyWalking logs explorer"> |
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| <!-- ===== HIGHLIGHTS: AI Assistant + 3D map (alternating rows) ===== |
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| <span class="shot-bar"><i></i><i></i><i></i><em>horizon · AI Assistant</em></span> |
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| </figure> |
| <div class="ai-byo"> |
| <span class="ai-byo-tag">Bring your own LLM</span> |
| <p><strong>No frontier model required.</strong> Vendor-neutral — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint or Amazon Bedrock — and runs efficiently on a cost-effective model like <strong>DeepSeek</strong> or a mid-tier <strong>Claude Sonnet</strong>. The observability know-how lives in the tools, metric catalog and playbooks; the model orchestrates and narrates. Off by default.</p> |
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| <div class="frow-copy"> |
| <span class="eyebrow">NEW · AI ASSISTANT</span> |
| <h2>Ask questions in natural language</h2> |
| <p>Horizon's built-in assistant answers questions about your running system — <em>"what's unhealthy right now?"</em>, <em>"investigate latency for checkout"</em> — with no MQE, PromQL or TraceQL to write. It replies with an ordered narrative built from the <strong>same charts, topology and tables</strong> as the rest of the UI, not a wall of text.</p> |
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| <span><strong>Answers you can see.</strong> Inline charts, top-N lists, tables and a focused one-hop topology — drawn by the same widgets as the dashboards.</span> |
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| <span><strong>Guided root-cause.</strong> Playbooks walk root service → calling chain → error stack, read live Kubernetes pod logs, and can propose a profiling task only you approve.</span> |
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| <span><strong>Read-only, your permissions.</strong> Every action re-checks a read verb you already hold — it never sees more than you can, and never edits anything.</span> |
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| <div class="frow-cta"> |
| <a class="sky-btn primary" href="/docs/skywalking-horizon-ui/next/operate/ai-assistant/">AI Assistant docs <i class="iconfont icon-arrow-right"></i></a> |
| <a class="sky-btn" href="/blog/2026-07-06-horizon-ui-ai-assistant/">Meet Horizon UI</a> |
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| <div class="frow-copy"> |
| <span class="eyebrow">SEE IT IN 3D</span> |
| <h2>Explore your topology in 3D</h2> |
| <p>Walk your services and cloud-native infrastructure as a living 3D scene — orbit, zoom and click any node to inspect it. It opens as a full page and runs entirely in your browser from a frozen demo snapshot: no server, no login, no setup.</p> |
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| |
| <!-- ===== CAPABILITIES ===== --> |
| <section class="home-section"> |
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| <div class="section-head"> |
| <span class="eyebrow">WHAT YOU GET</span> |
| <h2>One platform for traces, metrics, logs, profiles and GenAI</h2> |
| <p>An observability platform designed for cloud-native systems. Auto-instrument the languages you run, observe the kernel via eBPF, and store the volume natively in BanyanDB.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="cap-grid"> |
| <article class="cap-card"> |
| <span class="cap-tag tracing">Tracing</span> |
| <h3>End-to-end distributed tracing</h3> |
| <p>Native plus Zipkin v1/v2 formats. Auto-instrument 10+ languages, eBPF on Kubernetes, and dependency analysis across services and APIs.</p> |
| <a href="/docs/main/latest/en/concepts-and-designs/probe-introduction/">Learn more →</a> |
| </article> |
| <article class="cap-card"> |
| <span class="cap-tag metrics">Metrics</span> |
| <h3>Metrics pipeline at any scale</h3> |
| <p>OTLP, native, OpenCensus, Telegraf and Zabbix flow through one MAL script pipeline — 100B+ data points per cluster.</p> |
| <a href="/docs/main/latest/en/concepts-and-designs/mal/">Learn more →</a> |
| </article> |
| <article class="cap-card"> |
| <span class="cap-tag logging">Logging</span> |
| <h3>Logs with trace correlation</h3> |
| <p>Collect from disk or network, auto-bind trace context, extract metrics, sample by policy, and forward anywhere.</p> |
| <a href="/docs/main/latest/en/setup/backend/log-analyzer/">Learn more →</a> |
| </article> |
| <article class="cap-card"> |
| <span class="cap-tag profiling">Profiling</span> |
| <h3>Profiling, in-agent and eBPF</h3> |
| <p>CPU and async profiling bundled in language agents. eBPF profiler on Rover for Kubernetes deployments.</p> |
| <a href="/docs/main/latest/en/concepts-and-designs/profiling/">Learn more →</a> |
| </article> |
| <article class="cap-card"> |
| <span class="cap-tag genai">GenAI</span> |
| <h3>LLM and GenAI monitoring</h3> |
| <p>Latency, traffic, success rate, input/output tokens and estimated cost, per provider and model — from SkyWalking, OTLP or Zipkin traces.</p> |
| <a href="/docs/main/latest/en/setup/service-agent/virtual-genai/">Learn more →</a> |
| </article> |
| <a class="cap-card cap-card--cta" href="/docs/"> |
| <span class="cap-cta-eyebrow">And the rest</span> |
| <h3>See all capabilities</h3> |
| <p>Every server, agent, database and integration in the project — each with documentation for every released version.</p> |
| <span class="cap-cta-more">Browse documentation →</span> |
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| <span class="eyebrow">ECOSYSTEM</span> |
| <h2>Built for the stack you already run</h2> |
| <p>Language agents, service mesh, eBPF, a native observability database, and broad telemetry-format support — vendor-neutral and Apache-governed.</p> |
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| <h4>Agents for your stack</h4> |
| <p>Java, Go, Python, Node.js, PHP, Rust, Ruby, .NET, LUA, C++ and Client JavaScript — actively maintained.</p> |
| <span class="eco-more">11 language agents →</span> |
| </a> |
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| <h4>eBPF with Rover</h4> |
| <p>Monitor and profile Kubernetes deployments and diagnose CPU and network performance with eBPF.</p> |
| <span class="eco-more">Rover docs →</span> |
| </a> |
| <a class="eco-card" href="/docs/skywalking-banyandb/latest/readme/" style="--eco: #0e7490;"> |
| <span class="eco-ic"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none"><ellipse cx="12" cy="6" rx="7" ry="3" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.6"/><path d="M5 6v6c0 1.66 3.13 3 7 3s7-1.34 7-3V6M5 12v6c0 1.66 3.13 3 7 3s7-1.34 7-3v-6" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.6"/></svg></span> |
| <h4>BanyanDB</h4> |
| <p>A native observability database built to ingest, analyze and store telemetry at scale.</p> |
| <span class="eco-more">BanyanDB docs →</span> |
| </a> |
| <a class="eco-card" href="/tags/ai/" style="--eco: #be2069;"> |
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| <h4>AI-assisted troubleshooting</h4> |
| <p>Ask Horizon UI to investigate in natural language — LLM-driven root cause, read-only and grounded in live data — plus ML baselines and anomaly detection.</p> |
| <span class="eco-more">AI on the blog →</span> |
| </a> |
| </div> |
| <div class="formats"> |
| <span class="formats-label">Telemetry supported natively</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">OpenTelemetry (OTLP)</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">Zipkin v1/v2</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">Prometheus</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">OpenCensus</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">Telegraf</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">Zabbix</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">Fluentd / Fluent Bit</span> |
| <span class="format-chip">Apache Kafka</span> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </section> |
| |
| <!-- ===== EVENTS & BLOGS ===== --> |
| <section class="home-section"> |
| <div class="container"> |
| <div class="section-head"> |
| <span class="eyebrow">LATEST</span> |
| <h2>Events & blogs</h2> |
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| {{< blocks/events >}} |
| {{< /blocks/events >}} |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| </section> |
| |
| <!-- ===== GET STARTED / COMMUNITY ===== --> |
| <section class="home-section"> |
| <div class="container"> |
| <div class="get-started"> |
| <div class="gs-text"> |
| <span class="gs-eyebrow">GET STARTED</span> |
| <h2>Ready to get started?</h2> |
| <p>Spin up the Showcase to see Apache SkyWalking in action, or install the platform — then join a community built by <a href="/team/">{{< team-count >}} contributors</a>.</p> |
| <div class="gs-cta"> |
| <a class="sky-btn primary" href="/docs/#qs-skywalking">Quick start <i class="iconfont icon-arrow-right"></i></a> |
| <a class="sky-btn" href="/downloads/">All releases</a> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
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| |
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| <a class="community-card" href="https://github.com/apache/skywalking/discussions" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> |
| <span class="cc-ic"><i class="iconfont icon-github"></i></span> |
| <h4>Questions or bugs?</h4> |
| <p>Open a discussion or file an issue on GitHub — feature requests, questions and bug reports all welcome.</p> |
| <span class="cc-more">GitHub Discussions →</span> |
| </a> |
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| <span class="cc-ic"><i class="iconfont icon-slack"></i></span> |
| <h4>Join our Slack</h4> |
| <p>Chat with maintainers and users in real time. ASF self-signup only works for <span class="cc-mail">@apache.org</span> addresses, so ask the dev mailing list and a maintainer will invite you.</p> |
| <span class="cc-more">dev@skywalking.apache.org →</span> |
| </a> |
| <a class="community-card" href="https://twitter.com/asfskywalking" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> |
| <span class="cc-ic"><i class="iconfont icon-twitter"></i></span> |
| <h4>Follow on Twitter</h4> |
| <p>Announcements, releases and the latest features — follow @ASFSkyWalking for project news.</p> |
| <span class="cc-more">@ASFSkyWalking →</span> |
| </a> |
| </div> |
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| </section> |
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