Apache Skywalking is an application performance monitoring and observability tool for distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Kubernetes) architectures — with or without a service mesh.

In this talk, Marc will go trough Skywalking’s approach to handle metrics, logs and traicing holistically and correlated them all in a low latency, extensible and performant way that allows it to have 100% client sampling.

You will learn how easy and quickly you can get Apache Skywalking up and running to pinpoint where the problems in your system are thanks to Skywalking’s functionalities for:

• Monitoring the health of your services with distributed tracing collected with low payload.
• Observing your distributed system, on or off service mesh.
• Automating source code change and instrumentation: multiple language agents provided.
• Advanced visualization: used in traces, metrics, and topology maps.
• On demand logs.
• ebpf-based interactive profiling for C, C++, Golang, and Rust.

Speakers:

Marc Navarro Sonnenfeld: Tetrate, Software Engineer, Marc is Software Engineer that works at Tetrate to provide a unified observability experience in multiple cluster service meshes. Previously he worked at Oracle-Netsuite as a Senior Software Engineer focused on extending a business events processing platform and he also was involved in enhancing the performance and profiling experience in the company. He as 15+ years of backend development experience in enterprise applications and is the co-founder and lead organizer of the GolangBCN meetup community in Barcelona.