Skydive is an open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer. It aims to provide a comprehensive way of understanding what is happening in the network infrastructure.

Skydive agents collect topology information and flows and forward them to a central agent for further analysis. All the information is stored in an Elasticsearch database.

Skydive is SDN-agnostic but provides SDN drivers in order to enhance the topology and flows information.

• Captures network topology and flows
• Full history of network topology and flows
• Distributed
• Ability to follow a flow along a path in the topology
• Supports VMs and Containers infrastructure
• Unified query language for topology and flows (Gremlin)
• Web and command line interfaces
• REST API
• Easy to deploy (standalone executable)
• Connectors to OpenStack, Docker, OpenContrail, Kubernetes

The easiest way to get started is to download the latest binary and to run it using the all-in-one mode :

curl -Lo - https://github.com/skydive-project/skydive-binaries/raw/jenkins-builds/skydive-latest.gz | gzip -d > skydive && chmod +x skydive && sudo mv skydive /usr/local/bin/

SKYDIVE_ETCD_DATA_DIR=/tmp SKYDIVE_ANALYZER_LISTEN=0.0.0.0:8082 sudo -E /usr/local/bin/skydive allinone

Open a browser to http://localhost:8082 to access the analyzer Web UI.

If you are using Kubernetes then you can deploy skydive using helm directly from Git:

helm plugin install https://github.com/aslafy-z/helm-git --version 0.10.0
helm repo add skydive git+https://github.com/skydive-project/skydive@contrib/charts
helm repo update
helm install skydive-analyzer skydive/skydive-analyzer
helm install skydive-agent skydive/skydive-agent
kubectl port-forward service/skydive-analyzer 8082:8082

Open a browser to http://localhost:8082 to access the analyzer Web UI.

docker run -d --privileged --pid=host --net=host -p 8082:8082 -p 8081:8081 \
    -e SKYDIVE_ANALYZER_LISTEN=0.0.0.0:8082 \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /run/netns:/var/run/netns \
    skydive/skydive allinone

Open a browser to http://localhost:8082 to access the analyzer Web UI.

To quick set up a more complete working environment (with history support), Docker Compose can be used to automatically start an Elasticsearch container, a Skydive analyzer container and a Skydive agent container.

curl -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skydive-project/skydive/master/contrib/docker/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up

You can also use the Skydive command line client with:

docker run --net=host -ti skydive/skydive client query "g.V()"

Open a browser to http://localhost:8082 to access the analyzer Web UI.

Skydive documentation can be found here:

• http://skydive.network/documentation

The Skydive REST API is described using swagger here.

Skydive tutorials can be found here:

• http://skydive.network/tutorials/first-steps-1.html

• Weekly meeting

  • General - Weekly meeting - every Thursday at 5:00 - 5:30 PM CET (Calendar)
  • Minutes

• Slack

  • Invite : https://slack.skydive.network
  • Workspace : https://skydive-project.slack.com

Your contributions are more than welcome. Please check https://github.com/skydive-project/skydive/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md to know about the process.

This software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this software except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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