Apache SkyWalking: Observing the Heterogenous Stack at Scale

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Apache SkyWalking, an application performance monitor (APM) and observability platform, is an open source project that addresses this need — with or without a service mesh. Like other observability tools, Apache SkyWalking allows system administrators to track system health and understand what’s going on among abundant and interdependent services. The internal system of a large-scale enterprise will often have scores of subsystems running hundreds of services and thousands of instances.

Organizations might opt to use SkyWalking so that they can maintain consistency and use the same APM system for traditional and cloud native architectures.

For mesh adopters, Apache SkyWalking integrates with Istio and Envoy and comes built into the service mesh management platform Tetrate Service Bridge.

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