Deprecated Query Protocol

The following query services are deprecated since 9.5.0. All these queries are still available for the short term to keep compatibility.

Query protocol official repository, https://github.com/apache/skywalking-query-protocol.

Metadata

Metadata contains concise information on all services and their instances, endpoints, etc. under monitoring. You may query the metadata in different ways.

V1 APIs

V1 APIs were introduced since 6.x. Now they are a shell to V2 APIs since 9.0.0.

extend type Query {
    # Normal service related meta info 
    getAllServices(duration: Duration!, group: String): [Service!]!
    searchServices(duration: Duration!, keyword: String!): [Service!]!
    searchService(serviceCode: String!): Service
    
    # Fetch all services of Browser type
    getAllBrowserServices(duration: Duration!): [Service!]!
    searchBrowserServices(duration: Duration!, keyword: String!): [Service!]!
    searchBrowserService(serviceCode: String!): Service

    # Service instance query
    getServiceInstances(duration: Duration!, serviceId: ID!): [ServiceInstance!]!

    # Endpoint query
    # Consider there are huge numbers of endpoint,
    # must use endpoint owner's service id, keyword and limit filter to do query.
    searchEndpoint(keyword: String!, serviceId: ID!, limit: Int!): [Endpoint!]!

    # Database related meta info.
    getAllDatabases(duration: Duration!): [Database!]!
}

Metrics

Metrics query targets all objects defined in OAL script and MAL. You may obtain the metrics data in linear or thermodynamic matrix formats based on the aggregation functions in script.

V2 APIs

Provide Metrics V2 query APIs since 8.0.0, including metadata, single/multiple values, heatmap, and sampled records metrics.

extend type Query {
    # Read metrics single value in the duration of required metrics
    readMetricsValue(condition: MetricsCondition!, duration: Duration!): Long!
    # Read metrics single value in the duration of required metrics
    # NullableValue#isEmptyValue == true indicates no telemetry data rather than aggregated value is actually zero.
    readNullableMetricsValue(condition: MetricsCondition!, duration: Duration!): NullableValue!
    # Read time-series values in the duration of required metrics
    readMetricsValues(condition: MetricsCondition!, duration: Duration!): MetricsValues!
    # Read entity list of required metrics and parent entity type.
    sortMetrics(condition: TopNCondition!, duration: Duration!): [SelectedRecord!]!
    # Read value in the given time duration, usually as a linear.
    # labels: the labels you need to query.
    readLabeledMetricsValues(condition: MetricsCondition!, labels: [String!]!, duration: Duration!): [MetricsValues!]!
    # Heatmap is bucket based value statistic result.
    readHeatMap(condition: MetricsCondition!, duration: Duration!): HeatMap
    # Deprecated since 9.3.0, replaced by readRecords defined in record.graphqls
    # Read the sampled records
    # TopNCondition#scope is not required.
    readSampledRecords(condition: TopNCondition!, duration: Duration!): [SelectedRecord!]!
}

V1 APIs

3 types of metrics can be queried. V1 APIs were introduced since 6.x. Now they are a shell to V2 APIs.

  1. Single value. Most default metrics are in single value. getValues and getLinearIntValues are suitable for this purpose.
  2. Multiple value. A metric defined in OAL includes multiple value calculations. Use getMultipleLinearIntValues to obtain all values. percentile is a typical multiple value function in OAL.
  3. Heatmap value. Read Heatmap in WIKI for details. thermodynamic is the only OAL function. Use getThermodynamic to get the values.
extend type Query {
    getValues(metric: BatchMetricConditions!, duration: Duration!): IntValues
    getLinearIntValues(metric: MetricCondition!, duration: Duration!): IntValues
    # Query the type of metrics including multiple values, and format them as multiple lines.
    # The seq of these multiple lines base on the calculation func in OAL
    # Such as, should us this to query the result of func percentile(50,75,90,95,99) in OAL,
    # then five lines will be responded, p50 is the first element of return value.
    getMultipleLinearIntValues(metric: MetricCondition!, numOfLinear: Int!, duration: Duration!): [IntValues!]!
    getThermodynamic(metric: MetricCondition!, duration: Duration!): Thermodynamic
}

Aggregation

Aggregation query means that the metrics data need a secondary aggregation at query stage, which causes the query interfaces to have some different arguments. A typical example of aggregation query is the TopN list of services. Metrics stream aggregation simply calculates the metrics values of each service, but the expected list requires ordering metrics data by their values.

Aggregation query is for single value metrics only.

# The aggregation query is different with the metric query.
# All aggregation queries require backend or/and storage do aggregation in query time.
extend type Query {
    # TopN is an aggregation query.
    getServiceTopN(name: String!, topN: Int!, duration: Duration!, order: Order!): [TopNEntity!]!
    getAllServiceInstanceTopN(name: String!, topN: Int!, duration: Duration!, order: Order!): [TopNEntity!]!
    getServiceInstanceTopN(serviceId: ID!, name: String!, topN: Int!, duration: Duration!, order: Order!): [TopNEntity!]!
    getAllEndpointTopN(name: String!, topN: Int!, duration: Duration!, order: Order!): [TopNEntity!]!
    getEndpointTopN(serviceId: ID!, name: String!, topN: Int!, duration: Duration!, order: Order!): [TopNEntity!]!
}

Record

Record is a general and abstract type for collected raw data. In the observability, traces and logs have specific and well-defined meanings, meanwhile, the general records represent other collected records. Such as sampled slow SQL statement, HTTP request raw data(request/response header/body)

extend type Query {
    # Query collected records with given metric name and parent entity conditions, and return in the requested order.
    readRecords(condition: RecordCondition!, duration: Duration!): [Record!]!
}