Apache SkyWalking

APM and observability platform for distributed systems

About Apache SkyWalking

An application performance monitoring and observability platform for distributed systems, microservices and cloud-native architectures, providing tracing, metrics analysis, logging and alerting across many languages. Its open development model means documentation, plugins and community support are publicly available, and organisations can contribute fixes upstream instead of waiting on a vendor roadmap. For many teams it becomes long-lived infrastructure: simple to back up, straightforward to automate and independent of per-seat pricing as usage grows steadily.

Apache SkyWalking key facts

Category: Data & Analytics
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: apm, observability, tracing, microservices
Official site: skywalking.apache.org

About the Data & Analytics category

Analytics and BI platforms that turn raw data into clear insights. The Data & Analytics category on Tools Hub currently lists 712 tools. Alongside Apache SkyWalking, it includes Pinpoint, HertzBeat, Highlight.io, Open Web Analytics.

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Comparing tools in the Data & Analytics category? These related listings are worth a look: Pinpoint — APM tool for large-scale distributed systems in Java and PHP; HertzBeat — Real-time monitoring with agentless custom monitors; Highlight.io — Full-stack monitoring with session replay and errors.