Skywalking

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Update time: 2024-09-18

Since SOFARPC 5.4.0, the link analysis feature of Skywalking is supported. You can use it as needed. The Skywalking must be 6.0.0-alpha and above.

This document does not cover the backend deployment. If you need it, please refer to the official Skywalking documentation.

Install Java agent

  1. Locate the agent directory in the downloaded Skywalking release package.

  2. Set agent.service_name in config/agent.config, which can be any English character. Generally, it can be your own system name.

  3. Set the collector.backend_service Skywalking backend address in config/agent.config, which defaults to 127.0.0.1:11800. It is used for local verification.

  4. Add -javaagent:/path/to/skywalking-package/agenxt/skywalking-agent.jar to the application, which must be placed before the -jar parameter. The skywalking-agent can be gotten in official release package. The new directory structure is as follows:

    +-- agent
+-- activations
     apm-toolkit-log4j-1.x-activation.jar
     apm-toolkit-log4j-2.x-activation.jar
     apm-toolkit-logback-1.x-activation.jar
     ...
+-- config
     agent.config
+-- plugins
     sofa-rpc-plugin-6.0.0-alpha.jar
     apm-feign-default-http-9.x.jar
     apm-httpClient-4.x-plugin.jar
     .....
skywalking-agent.jar

    Note: Ensure that the plugins/sofa-rpc-plugin-**.jar file exists.

  5. Start the application. After a period of RPC calls, you can view the UI to observe the calling link.

More

For more relevant documents, please refer to

Skywalking Agent installation documentation Skywalking Backend deployment documentation