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.
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' |
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 |
Apache 2.0
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent