Not exactly, the critical reason why we don’t have such plugin for Netty is that, Netty is rather fundamental that it uses TCP protocol, but we need something like headers/metadata/attachment to propagate the tracing context seamlessly without affecting either side of client and server if any of them doesn’t install SkyWalking agent, which TCP protocol doesn’t have.
> On Oct 21, 2020, at 10:49 AM, logos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear SkyWalking masters: > I want to trace requests processed by Netty, but > there is no a official plugin in the Skywalking binary package. Does the team > have a plan to develop this plugin? > Basically ,Netty has to two thread pools for > EventLoops and workers. I guessed that it is difficult to trace messages > between to thread pools, so that there is no a suirtable plugin for this > famous http component，is that right? > Hope to your reply，thank you very much.
