# Apache SkyWalking

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-skywalking/  
**Website:** https://skywalking.apache.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Apache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system that provides monitoring, tracing, and diagnosing capabilities for distributed systems in cloud native architectures. It supports auto-instrumentation for Java, .NET, Python, Go, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby, offering distributed tracing, metrics collection, log aggregation, and continuous profiling through a unified observability platform governed by the Apache Software Foundation.

## Kin Score — 22.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Apache SkyWalking GraphQL Query API** — The SkyWalking GraphQL Query API provides a comprehensive query interface for retrieving observability data including traces, metrics, logs, alarms, topology maps, and profiling...
- **Apache SkyWalking REST API** — The SkyWalking HTTP REST API exposes endpoints on port 12800 for health checks, PromQL-compatible metrics queries (Prometheus Query Language), LogQL log queries, and dynamic con...
- **Apache SkyWalking gRPC Data Collect Protocol** — The SkyWalking data collection protocol defines gRPC service definitions for telemetry data ingestion from language agents and service mesh proxies. It covers trace data (v3), J...

## Security (2)

- **Apache Skywalking Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Skywalking Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Skywalking Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Microservices Observability** — End-to-end monitoring and tracing for microservices architectures in Kubernetes.
- **Service Mesh Monitoring** — Integration with Istio and other service meshes for traffic and performance monitoring.
- **Root Cause Analysis** — Trace-based root cause analysis for distributed system failures and latency issues.
- **SLA Monitoring** — Service level agreement monitoring with metrics dashboards and alerting.
- **Continuous Profiling** — Always-on profiling for performance optimization without overhead in production.

## Tags

APM, Application Performance Monitoring, Cloud-Native, Distributed Tracing, Monitoring, Observability, Open-Source, Tracing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-skywalking/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.