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apache / skywalking

skywalking

APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
25KGitHub stars
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APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

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Observed mentions: 2019-06-18 09:53:57 UTC to 2023-08-28 18:08:25 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> What should people use? I recall Apache Skywalking being pretty good, especially for smaller/medium scale projects: https://skywalking.apache.org/ The architecture is simple, the performance is adequate, it doesn't make you spend days configuring it and it even supports various different data stores: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v9.5.0/en/setup/back... The problems with it are that it isn't super popular (although has agents for most popular stacks), the docs could be slightly better and I recall them also working on a new UI so there is a little bit of churn: https://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/ Still better versus some of the other options when you need something that just works instead of spending a lot of time configuring something (even when that something might be superior in regards to the features): https://github
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.com/apache/skywalking/blob/master/docker/dock... Sentry comes to mind (OpenTelemetry also isn't simpler due to how much it tries to do, given all the separate parts), compare its complexity to Skywalking: https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-... I wish there was more self-hosted software like that out there, enough to address certain concerns in a simple way on day 1 and leave branching out to more complex options like OpenTelemetry once you have a separate team for that and the cash is rolling in.
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I occasionally check trending repositories of chinse language in github https://github.com/trending?spoken_language_code=zh and github repositories of Alibaba, tencent etc. From the look of it they are very focused on tooling/tutorials on highly salable distributed systems architecture. Java is very popular and spring cloud is their preferred choice. One thing I found interesting is that hibernate ORM is not used anywhere, instead they prefer MyBatis data mapper framework. Some of those projects are moved to apache foundation. On top of my head I found these projects interesting, * Dolphin Scheduler https://github.com/apache/incubator-dolphinscheduler * Echarts https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts * Ant Design https://ant.design/ * Sky walking APM https://github.com/apache/skywalking * Seata distributed transaction system https://g
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ithub.com/seata/seata * EasyTransaction distributed transaction system https://github.com/QNJR-GROUP/EasyTransaction * EShop-SOA https://github.com/songxinjianqwe/EShop-SOA * RocketMQ https://github.com/apache/rocketmq * Sharding Sphere https://github.com/apache/incubator-shardingsphere * Jeecg-Boot https://github.com/zhangdaiscott/jeecg-boot * SOFA Stack https://github.com/sofastack * Dubbo RPC framework https://dubbo.apache.org/en-us/ . Also it seems that every big companies in China have their own RPC framework.
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