Hi, Otis, Glad to receive your mail. SkyWalking is designed as a complex and full functional APM and tracing system. If you follow our twitter, will receive the new UI soon.
Aggregation, rules and metrics are always includes, sure. But users, password and auth are not. So I guess you want to use the agent alone? By that, you need to implement backend of SkyWalking upstream grpc services, which can be found here, https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/tree/master/apm-protocol/apm-network/src/main/proto We support that way, using agent alone, but we are more focusing on better aggregation than just tracing and mutil languages support. You can see, because we build backend, so we can be sure the agent is designed right, yes? We are moving fast, so not that roadmap in document, but in my mind. Sorry, feel free to ask us anything you want to know. ___ Sheng Wu Apache SkyWalking creator and PPMC member ---Original--- From: "Otis Gospodneti?0?4"<[email protected]> Date: 2018/1/24 11:19:09 To: "dev"<[email protected]>; Subject: Skywalking scope Hi, I was looking at Skywalking as a project focused exclusively on building a tracing agent with support for both Java bytecode instrumentation and OpenTracing and perhaps some other forms of instrumentation. However, browsing through GitHub issues I see references to things like alerts and to API for retrieving traces and perhaps other data. Then there is also the UI. And this means there must be a notion of users, passwords, authentication, alert rules and so on. So Skywalking is not really just an agent but either already is or aims to be a full APM/transaction tracing solution? Is there some page or doc or email or anything that describes everything that Skywalking is today and it??s roadmap? Also, I am wondering if Skywalking is designed in a way that lets one use just the tracing agent without everything else? Thanks, Otis -- Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/
