UI

SkyWalking UI distribution is already included in our Apache official release.

Startup

Startup script is also in /bin/webappService.sh(.bat). UI runs as an OS Java process, powered-by Zuul.

Settings

The settings file of UI is webapp/webapp.yml in the distribution package. It has three parts.

Listening port.
Backend connect info.

server:
  port: 8080
spring:
  cloud:
    gateway:
      routes:
        - id: oap-route
          uri: lb://oap-service
          predicates:
            - Path=/graphql/**
    discovery:
      client:
        simple:
          instances:
            oap-service:
              # Point to all backend's restHost:restPort, split by URI arrays.
              - uri: http://127.0.0.1:12800
              - uri: http://instance-2:12800

Start with Docker Image

Start a container to connect OAP server whose address is http://oap:12800.

docker run --name oap --restart always -d -e SW_OAP_ADDRESS=http://oap:12800 apache/skywalking-ui:8.8.0

Configuration

We could set up environment variables to configure this image.

SW_OAP_ADDRESS

The address of your OAP server. The default value is http://127.0.0.1:12800.