Welcome

This is the official documentation of SkyWalking 10. Welcome to the SkyWalking community!

SkyWalking is an open source observability platform for collecting, analyzing, aggregating, and visualizing data from services and cloud native infrastructures. It provides distributed tracing, service mesh telemetry analysis, metrics aggregation, alerting, and visualization capabilities.

Documentation Structure

Concepts and Designs

Understand the core architecture, terminology, and design principles of SkyWalking. Start with the Overview.

Setup

Installation and configuration guides for different deployment scenarios.

• Quick Start - Get SkyWalking running with Docker or Kubernetes
• Marketplace - Explore all out-of-box monitoring features for services, service mesh, Kubernetes, databases, message queues, and more
• Agent Compatibility - Check agent compatibility for SkyWalking language agents
• Advanced Setup - Storage options, cluster management, security, and dynamic configuration

APIs

Protocol specifications for integration, including Telemetry APIs for reporting data and Query APIs for retrieving data.

Customization

Extend SkyWalking with custom analysis pipelines using Observability Analysis Language, Meter Analysis Language, and Log Analysis Language.

Security

Suggestions for keeping your SkyWalking deployment secure. For reporting security vulnerabilities, please follow the ASF Security Policy.

Academy

In-depth articles and papers about SkyWalking architecture and best practices.

FAQs

Solutions to common issues with setup and development.

Contributing Guides

For contributors and committers - contact the community, learn how to build and test the project. For major features, see SkyWalking Improvement Proposals.

Changelog

Release notes and version history. See current version or browse all versions in the documentation menu.

Additional Resources

• Apache SkyWalking Downloads - Official releases
• SkyWalking WIKI - Additional context and events
• Community Resources - Conference schedules, videos, and articles
• SkyWalking CLI - Command line interface

Getting Help

• Questions & Answers - Post to GitHub Discussions
• Bug Reports - File an issue directly if you‘re certain it’s a bug
• Slack Channels - Join #skywalking for English or #skywalking-cn for Chinese discussions. To get an invite, send a request to dev@skywalking.apache.org

We're always looking for help to improve our documentation and code. Feel free to contribute by submitting a pull request!