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    <div class="introduction mt-5">
        <h1 class="title-skywalking">
            Apache SkyWalking
            <a href="https://github.com/apache/skywalking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
                <i class="iconfont icon-github icon-skywalking"></i>
            </a>
        </h1>
        <div class="desc" id="demo">
            Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems, especially designed for
            microservices, cloud native and container-based (Kubernetes) architectures.
        </div>
        <a href="/docs/skywalking-showcase/latest/readme/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
            <button class="sky-btn primary mr-2">Quick start</button>
        </a>
        <span class="dropdown demo-wrapper">
        <button class="sky-btn btn-demo dropdown-toggle" type="button" id="dropdownMenuButton"
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            Live demo
        </button>
        <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuButton">
            <span class="dropdown-item" href="#">Username: skywalking</span>
            <span class="dropdown-item" href="#">Password: skywalking</span>
            <span class="dropdown-item" href="#">
              <a href="http://demo.skywalking.apache.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
              Go to native UI <i class="iconfont icon-arrow-up-right"></i>
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="dropdown-item" href="#">
              <a href="http://demo.skywalking.apache.org:3000/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
              Preview metrics on Grafana <i class="iconfont icon-arrow-up-right"></i>
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        <h2 class="title solution-title">
            All-in-one APM solution
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                <h4>Distributed Tracing</h4>
                <p>
                    End-to-end distributed tracing. Service topology analysis, service-centric observability and APIs
                    dashboards.
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <h4>Agents for your stack</h4>
                <p>
                    Java, .Net Core, PHP, NodeJS, Golang, LUA, Rust, C++, Client JavaScript and Python agents with
                    active
                    development and maintenance.
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <h4>eBPF early adoption</h4>
                <p>
                    Rover agent works as metrics collector and profiler powered by eBPF to diagnose CPU and network
                    performance.
                </p>
            </li>
        </ul>
        <ul class="solution-content">
            <li>
                <h4>Scaling</h4>
                <p>
                    100+ billion telemetry data could be collected and analyzed from one SkyWalking cluster.
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <h4>Mature Telemetry Ecosystems Supported</h4>
                <p>
                    Metrics, Traces, and Logs from mature ecosystems are supported, e.g. Zipkin, OpenTelemetry,
                    Prometheus,
                    Zabbix, Fluentd
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <h4>Native APM Database</h4>
                <p>
                    BanyanDB, an observability database, created in 2022, aims to ingest, analyze and store
                    telemetry/observability data.
                </p>
            </li>
        </ul>
        <ul class="solution-content">
            <li>
                <h4>Consistent Metrics Aggregation</h4>
                <p>
                    SkyWalking native meter format and widely known metrics format(OpenCensus, OTLP, Telegraf, Zabbix,
                    e.g.) are
                    processed through the same script pipeline.
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <h4>Log Management Pipeline</h4>
                <p>
                    Support log formatting, extract metrics, various sampling policies through script pipeline in high
                    performance.
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <h4>Alerting and Telemetry Pipelines</h4>
                <p>
                    Support service-centric, deployment-centric, API-centric alarm rule setting. Support forwarding
                    alarms and all
                    telemetry data to 3rd party.
                </p>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>

    <div class="container" id="arch">
        <img loading="lazy" src="images/home/architecture_2160x720.png" alt="architecture">
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    <h2 class="title">Events &amp; Blogs</h2>
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    <h2 class="title">Ready to get started?</h2>
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        <div class="mask"></div>
        <div class="content-box">
            <h4>Run SkyWalking in a snap</h4>
            <p>Try this demo music application to showcase features of Apache SkyWalking in action.</p>
            <div>
                <a href="/docs/skywalking-showcase/latest/readme/">
                    <button class="sky-btn">
                        Quick start
                        <i class="iconfont icon-arrow-right pull-right"></i>
                    </button>
                </a>

            </div>
            <a class="releases mt-4" href="/downloads/">All releases</a>
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    <h2 class="title">
        Stay tuned with SkyWalking
    </h2>
    <ul class="tuned-content feature-content center">
        <li>
            <h4>Questions/bugs?</h4>
            <p>Features requests, questions or report bugs? Feel free to
                <a href="https://github.com/apache/skywalking/discussions">open a discussion</a>
                or <a href="https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues">file an issue</a>.</p>
            <img loading="lazy" src="images/home/tuned_q.svg" data-nolightbox="true" alt="questions">
        </li>
        <li>
            <h4>Join our slack workspace!</h4>
            <p>Send "Request to join SkyWalking slack" mail to
                <a href="mailto:dev@skywalking.apache.org">dev@skywalking.apache.org</a>.
                We will invite you in.</p>
            <img loading="lazy" src="images/home/tuned_slack.svg" data-nolightbox="true" alt="slack">
        </li>
        <li>
            <h4>Follow us on Twitter</h4>
            <p>For announcement of latest features etc, stay tuned with
                <a href="https://twitter.com/asfskywalking">@ASFSkyWalking</a>.
            </p>
            <img loading="lazy" src="images/home/tuned_twitter.svg" data-nolightbox="true" alt="twitter">
        </li>
    </ul>
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