OpenTelemetry tracing
The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop traced over OTLP, with service metrics, topology, database, cache, and MQ dashboards, and TraceQL search. On Docker, six more topology cases cover gateways, canaries, queues, and databases.
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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
SkyWalking agents and OpenTelemetry both instrument applications for OAP, which analyzes their traces into the same metrics and topology. Showcase's collectors also send OTLP metrics; its Kubernetes mesh scenario adds ALS access logs and sidecar traces.
Direction of a call or data flow
Communication in both directions
Explore optional scenarios8 ways to extend the demo
Service mesh & networking
Istio / Envoy ALS access log analysis and sidecar tracing over OTLP, services with agents in a mesh, and Cilium service traffic.
KubernetesProfiling
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, logs, and TraceQL trace search.
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))