Requirements

• JDK 6+（instruments application can run in jdk6）
• JDK8 ( SkyWalking collector and SkyWalking WebUI )
• Elasticsearch 5.x, cluster mode or not
• Zookeeper 3.4.10
• OS time(include time zone) of Applications under monitoring, collectors, UIs and your local machine are all correct and same.

Download released version

• Go to released page

Deploy Zookeeper

Zookeeper is used for collector coordination. Only required if you need more than one collector instances.

Add Zookeeper cluster info in each collector application.yml

cluster:
# The Zookeeper cluster for collector cluster management.
  zookeeper:
    # multiple instances should be separated by comma.
    hostPort: localhost:2181
    sessionTimeout: 100000

Deploy ElasticSearch server

ElasticSearch is using for storage all traces, metrics and alarms.

• Modify elasticsearch.yml
  • Set cluster.name: CollectorDBCluster
  • Set node.name: anyname, this name can be any, it based on Elasticsearch.
  • Add the following configurations

# The ip used for listening
network.host: 0.0.0.0
thread_pool.bulk.queue_size: 1000

See ElasticSearch Official documents to understand how to deploy cluster(Recommend).

• Start Elasticsearch

Set collector

There are five types of connection for SkyWalking cluster, related to collector settings.

1. Agent to collectors by using HTTP, named as naming.
2. Agent to collectors by using gRPC, named as agent_gRPC.
3. Collector to collector by using gRPC, named as remote.
4. UI to collector by using HTTP, named as ui. Don't need to change in most cases.
5. Optional connection: Agent to collector by using HTTP, named as agent_jetty.

The following segment of application.yml shows you the detail of each settings.

• config/application.yml

cluster:
# The Zookeeper cluster for collector cluster management.
  zookeeper:
    hostPort: localhost:2181
    sessionTimeout: 100000
naming:
# Host and port used for agent config
  jetty:
    # OS real network IP(binding required), for agent to find collector cluster. agent --(HTTP)--> collector
    host: localhost 
    port: 10800
    contextPath: /
remote:
  gRPC:
    # OS real network IP(binding required), for collector node to communicate with each other in cluster. collectorN --(gRPC) --> collectorM
    host: localhost 
    port: 11800
agent_gRPC:
  gRPC:
    # OS real network IP(binding required), for agent to uplink data(trace/metrics) to collector. agent--(gRPC)--> collector
    host: localhost
    port: 11800
agent_jetty:
  jetty:
    # OS real network IP(binding required), for agent to uplink data(trace/metrics) to collector through HTTP. agent--(HTTP)--> collector
    # SkyWalking native Java/.Net/node.js agents don't use this.
    # Open this for other implementor.
    host: localhost
    port: 12800
    contextPath: /
analysis_register:
  default:
analysis_jvm:
  default:
analysis_segment_parser:
  default:
    bufferFilePath: ../buffer/
    bufferOffsetMaxFileSize: 10M
    bufferSegmentMaxFileSize: 500M
ui:
  jetty:
    # OS real network IP(binding required), for UI to query from collector.
    host: localhost
    port: 12800
    contextPath: /
# Config Elasticsearch cluster connection info.
storage:
  elasticsearch:
    clusterName: CollectorDBCluster
    clusterTransportSniffer: true
    clusterNodes: localhost:9300
    indexShardsNumber: 2
    indexReplicasNumber: 0
    highPerformanceMode: true
    # Set an expired for metric/trace data. After the timeout has expired, the metric/trace data will be deleted automatically.
    traceDataTTL: 90 # Unit is minute
    minuteMetricDataTTL: 45 # Unit is minute
    hourMetricDataTTL: 36 # Unit is hour
    dayMetricDataTTL: 45 # Unit is day
    monthMetricDataTTL: 18 # Unit is month
configuration:
  default:
    # namespace: xxxxx
    
    # alarm threshold
    applicationApdexThreshold: 2000
    serviceErrorRateThreshold: 10.00
    serviceAverageResponseTimeThreshold: 2000
    instanceErrorRateThreshold: 10.00
    instanceAverageResponseTimeThreshold: 2000
    applicationErrorRateThreshold: 10.00
    applicationAverageResponseTimeThreshold: 2000
    
    # thermodynamic
    thermodynamicResponseTimeStep: 50
    thermodynamicCountOfResponseTimeSteps: 40

Set UI

The config items of UI is saved in webapp/webapp.yml. Change collector.ribbon.listOfServers by following the description, with matching naming.jetty.

Config	Description
server.port	Port to listen on. Default: 8080
collector.ribbon.listOfServers	Address to access collector naming service.(Consist with naming.jetty in config/application.yml). Multiple collector addresses are split by ‘,’
collector.path	Collector query uri. Default: /graphql
collector.ribbon.ReadTimeout	Query timeout. Default: 10 seconds
security.user.*	Login username/password. Default: admin/admin

Start up collector node

1. Run bin/startup.sh to start collector and UI together.
2. (Run if don't use 1 to start up)Run bin/collectorService.sh when you only want to start up collector.
3. (Run if don't use 1 to start up)Run bin/webappService.sh when you only want to start up UI.