Welcome

Welcome to the BanyanDB

BanyanDB, as an observability database, aims to ingest, analyze and store Metrics, Tracing, and Logging data. It’s designed to handle observability data generated by Apache SkyWalking. Before BanyanDB emerges, the Databases that SkyWalking adopted are not ideal for the APM data model, especially for saving tracing and logging data. Consequently, There’s room to improve the performance and resource usage based on the nature of SkyWalking data patterns.

Here you can learn all you need to know about BanyanDB. Let’s get started with it.

• Installation. Instruments about how to download and onboard BanyanDB server, Banyand.
• Clients. Some native clients to access Banyand.
• Observability. Learn how to effectively monitor, diagnose and optimize Banyand.
• Concept. Learn the concepts of Banyand. Includes the architecture, data model, and so on.
• CRUD Operations. To create, read, update, and delete data points or entities on resources in the schema.

Useful Links

You might also find these links interesting:

• The latest and old releases are all available at Apache SkyWalking release page. The change logs can be found here.

• SkyWalking WIKI hosts the context of some changes and events.

• You can find the conference schedules, video recordings, and articles about SkyWalking in the community resource catalog.

Contact Us

We’re always looking for help to improve our documentation and codes, so please don’t hesitate to file an issue if you see any problems. Or better yet, directly contribute by submitting a pull request to help us get better!