Service mesh & networking
Istio / Envoy ALS access log analysis and Zipkin tracing, services with agents in a mesh, and Cilium service traffic.
Kubernetes
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See observability in action with the Showcase demo, or start your own SkyWalking platform. Choose a path and run it locally.
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INSIDE THE SHOWCASE
Showcase docs
See what’s inside the Showcase
Follow a request through a music app, then explore the SkyWalking components that make its behavior visible. Select a component to learn what it does.
Music application
A music app built from services in four languages. Follow its HTTP requests, database calls, and messages.
Follow a request
Direction of a call or data flow
Communication in both directions
Observability stack
Native agents and ecosystem integrations feed OAP. Showcase's monitoring collectors use OTLP metrics; its Kubernetes mesh scenario adds ALS access logs and Zipkin traces.
Direction of a call or data flow
Communication in both directions
Explore optional scenarios7 ways to extend the demo
Profiling
Java and Python trace profiling, plus Rover for eBPF process discovery.
KubernetesDatabases & storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and BanyanDB monitoring.
Messaging & gateways
ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, RocketMQ, Pulsar, Nginx, and APISIX monitoring.
Infrastructure & events
Metrics from simulated hosts, Kubernetes monitoring and events, and SkyWalking self-observability.
Collection & visualization
Satellite for telemetry load balancing, and Grafana for metrics and logs.
More analysis
Flink monitoring, R3 URL recognition, and SkyPredictor metric baselines. R3 and SkyPredictor run on Kubernetes.
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Run the Showcase
A demo music application pre-wired with distributed tracing, metrics, logs and profiling — see SkyWalking end-to-end before installing anything.
git clone https://github.com/apache/skywalking-showcase
cd skywalking-showcase
make deploy.docker
# → open http://localhost:8080
Install the platform
Run SkyWalking
Start the storage, OAP server and UI with a one-liner. Requires Docker; you'll be prompted to choose a storage backend.
bash <(curl -sSL https://skywalking.apache.org/quickstart-docker.sh)
Invoke-Expression ([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://skywalking.apache.org/quickstart-docker.ps1 -UseBasicParsing).Content))