skywalking-apache

SkyWalking NodeJS Agent

SkyWalking-NodeJS: The NodeJS Agent for Apache SkyWalking, which provides the native tracing abilities for NodeJS project.

SkyWalking: an APM(application performance monitor) system, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.

Set up NodeJS Agent

SkyWalking NodeJS SDK requires SkyWalking 8.0+.

import Agent from 'skywalking';
 
Agent.start({
  serviceName: '',
  serviceInstance: '',
  collectorAddress: '',
  authorization: '',
  maxBufferSize: 1000,
});

The supported environment variables are as follows:

Environment Variable	Description	Default
SW_AGENT_NAME	The name of the service	your-nodejs-service
SW_AGENT_INSTANCE	The name of the service instance	Randomly generated
SW_AGENT_COLLECTOR_BACKEND_SERVICES	The backend OAP server address	127.0.0.1:11800
SW_AGENT_AUTHENTICATION	The authentication token to verify that the agent is trusted by the backend OAP, as for how to configure the backend, refer to the yaml.	not set
SW_AGENT_LOGGING_LEVEL	The logging level, could be one of CRITICAL, FATAL, ERROR, WARN(WARNING), INFO, DEBUG	INFO
SW_AGENT_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE	The maximum buffer size before sending the segment data to backend	'1000'

Supported Libraries

There're some built-in plugins that support automatic instrumentation of NodeJS libraries, the complete lists are as follows:

Library	Plugin Name
built-in http module	sw_http

License

Apache 2.0