Apache SkyWalking

Blog: How Good Are LLM Answers? Bringing Model Quality into SkyWalking Observability

peachisai — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how the upcoming SkyWalking 11.1.0 release uses LLM-as-Judge to evaluate GenAI span input and output messages asynchronously and connect the results to evaluation records, metrics, and traces.

Blog: Recorded as the Session Runs, Kept When It Ends: LangGraph on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Sheng Wu — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Run a LangGraph agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime and record every turn, model prompt, tool call and file change in Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer while the session runs, kept after it ends, with no change to the agent's logic.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking Java Agent 9.8.0

SkyWalking Team — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking Java Agent 9.8.0.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking Horizon UI 1.0.1

SkyWalking Team — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking Horizon UI 1.0.1.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer 0.5.0

SkyWalking Team — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer 0.5.0.

Blog: From Claude Code to Your Own Agent: Capture and Replay LangChain and LangGraph Conversations

Sheng Wu — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Build a LangGraph agent on Amazon Bedrock, point its tracing client at Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer, and replay every turn, tool call, sub-agent and model request without changing the application.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking BanyanDB 0.11.1

SkyWalking Team — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking BanyanDB 0.11.1.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer 0.4.0

SkyWalking Team — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer 0.4.0.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer 0.3.0

SkyWalking Team — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer 0.3.0.

Blog: Beyond Replay: Metrics and Change Detection for Your Claude Code Sessions

Sheng Wu — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Understand Claude Code usage across sessions and machines, replay recorded work, and inspect file changes with their tool calls and source evidence.

Blog: Horizon UI 1.0 GA: SkyWalking's New Mainstream UI

Sheng Wu — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

With Horizon UI 1.0 generally available, the SkyWalking community has voted to make it the project's primary UI and retire Booster UI. Explore Horizon and plan your migration.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking GraalVM Distro 0.4.0

SkyWalking Team — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking GraalVM Distro 0.4.0.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking BanyanDB Helm 0.7.0

SkyWalking Team — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

SkyWalking BanyanDB Helm 0.7.0 is released. Go to downloads page to find release tars. Features Add optional canopy web console deployment (canopy.*): Deployment + Service + optional Ingress for standalone and cluster modes, with a generated default admin user (strong random password, stable across upgrades; retrievable from the install notes or the -canopy-auth Secret). The …

Blog: BanyanDB 0.11.0: What's New and How to Upgrade

The BanyanDB Team — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

BanyanDB 0.11.0: default vectorized queries, pluggable trace sampling, schema barriers, and the upgrade order you must not skip.

Blog: Trace Tail Sampling Inside the Storage Engine with SkyWalking 11 and BanyanDB 0.11

Kai Wan — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

SkyWalking 11.0.0 and BanyanDB 0.11.0 add trace tail sampling that runs inside the BanyanDB data node during compaction: each trace is judged as a whole after it is stored, and a dropped trace reclaims space that was already written.

Blog: Replay Claude Code Sessions Without Plugins or Configuration Changes

Sheng Wu — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Replay existing Claude Code sessions with Apache SkyWalking AI Sessionizer: explore conversations, tool calls, and child-agent activity without installing a Claude Code plugin or changing its configuration.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking Cloud on Kubernetes 0.11.0

SkyWalking Team — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking Cloud on Kubernetes 0.11.0

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking Kubernetes Helm Chart 5.0.0

SkyWalking Team — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking Kubernetes Helm Chart 5.0.0.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking APM 11.0.0

SkyWalking Team — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Release Apache SkyWalking 11.0.0 - Horizon UI takes over, and the new admin server brings runtime rule hot-update and a live DSL debugger.

Events: Release Apache SkyWalking BanyanDB 0.11.0

SkyWalking Team — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

SkyWalking BanyanDB 0.11.0 is released. Go to downloads page to find release tars. Features Breaking Change: Upgrade the API version to 0.11 for the schema revision fields and SchemaBarrierService operations added in this release. External clients and internal node communication must use API 0.11; mixed BanyanDB 0.10 and 0.11 clusters are not supported. Add batch-write phase metrics for …