# Apache SkyWalking

Application performance monitoring system for distributed systems, microservices and container-based architectures.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/skywalking/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://skywalking.apache.org/
- repository: https://github.com/apache/skywalking
- docs: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/
- x: https://x.com/AsfSkyWalking
- forum: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/discussions

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Apache SkyWalking
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2015
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: analytics
- hosting: java
- language: java
- runtime: jvm
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: mysql, postgres
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: binary-download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 11
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 24989
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 389
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://skywalking.apache.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/apache/skywalking (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/ (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/releases/tag/1.0-alpha1 (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/v11.0.0/NOTICE (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/v11.0.0/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/v11.0.0/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/skywalking/languages (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/skywalking-helm/next/readme/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-storage/ (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-storage/ (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v11.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-docker/ (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/v11.0.0/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/releases/tag/v11.0.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/releases/tag/v11.0.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/apache/skywalking (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/apache/skywalking (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Apache SkyWalking is an application performance monitoring system for distributed systems, microservices and container-based architectures. Applications connect through agents for their language, and the OAP server listens for gRPC APIs. Storage is pluggable: the project recommends BanyanDB and also documents MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. A startup script runs the OAP server and the UI together, and the project documents Docker images and a Helm chart for Kubernetes. The server can also receive traces in OpenTelemetry format and convert them to the Zipkin trace format. The project is developed under the Apache Software Foundation.

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