SkyWalking Python Agent

SkyWalking-Python: The Python Agent for Apache SkyWalking provides the native tracing/metrics/logging/profiling abilities for Python projects.

SkyWalking: Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Kubernetes) architectures.

Documentation

• Official documentation
• Blog about the Python Agent Profiling Feature

Capabilities

Reporter	Supported?	Details
Trace	✅ (default: ON)	Automatic instrumentation + Manual SDK
Log	✅ (default: ON)	Direct reporter only. (Tracing context in log planned)
Meter	✅ (default: ON)	Meter API + Automatic PVM metrics
Event	❌ (Planned)	Report lifecycle events of your awesome Python application
Profiling	✅ (default: ON)	Threading and Greenlet Profiler

Installation Requirements

SkyWalking Python Agent requires Apache SkyWalking 8.0+ and Python 3.10+.

If you would like to try out the latest features that are not released yet, please refer to this guide to build from sources.

Live Demo

• Find the live demo with Python agent on our website.
• Follow the showcase to set up preview deployment quickly.

Contributing

Before submitting a pull request or pushing a commit, please read our contributing and developer guide.

Contact Us

• Mail list: dev@skywalking.apache.org. Mail to dev-subscribe@skywalking.apache.org, follow the reply to subscribe the mail list.
• Send Request to join SkyWalking slack mail to the mail list(dev@skywalking.apache.org), we will invite you in.
• Twitter, ASFSkyWalking
• For Chinese speaker, send [CN] Request to join SkyWalking slack mail to the mail list(dev@skywalking.apache.org), we will invite you in.
• bilibili B站 视频

License

Apache 2.0