# Apache SkyWalking GraphQL Query API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/apache-skywalking/apache-skywalking-graphql-query-api/  
**Provider:** Apache SkyWalking — https://apis.io/providers/apache-skywalking/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/apache/skywalking-query-protocol

Apache SkyWalking GraphQL Query API is one of 3 APIs that [Apache SkyWalking](https://apis.io/providers/apache-skywalking/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include GraphQL, Metrics, Observability, Tracing, and Logs. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

The SkyWalking GraphQL Query API provides a comprehensive query interface for retrieving observability data including traces, metrics, logs, alarms, topology maps, and profiling results. It supports metadata queries (services, instances, endpoints), topology queries, metrics via SkyWalking Metrics Query Expression (MQE), log queries, trace queries, alarm queries, and profiling queries. The API is served on port 12800 and consumed by the native UI and CLI tools.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/next/en/api/query-protocol/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/apache/skywalking-query-protocol
- **GraphQL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-skywalking/refs/heads/main/graphql/apache-skywalking-graphql.md
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-skywalking/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Apache SkyWalking APIs (2)

- [Apache SkyWalking REST API](https://apis.io/apis/apache-skywalking/apache-skywalking-rest-api/)
- [Apache SkyWalking gRPC Data Collect Protocol](https://apis.io/apis/apache-skywalking/apache-skywalking-grpc-data-collect-protocol/)

## Tags

GraphQL, Metrics, Observability, Tracing, Logs, Alarms, Profiling

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