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.

  1. Listening port.
  2. Backend connect info.
serverPort: ${SW_SERVER_PORT:-8080}

# Comma separated list of OAP addresses, without http:// prefix.
oapServices: ${SW_OAP_ADDRESS:-localhost: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.