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 informations and flows and forward them to a central agent for further analysis. All the informations are stored in an Elasticsearch database.

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

• 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

To quick set up a working environment, 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

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

You can also use the Skydive command line client with:

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

You can also download the latest release and use the all-in-one mode which will start an Agent and an Analyzer at once.

sudo skydive allinone [-c skydive.yml]

Skydive documentation can be found here:

• http://skydive-project.github.io/skydive

Your contributions are more than welcome. Please check https://skydive-project.github.io/skydive/contributing/ to know about the process.

• IRC: #skydive-project on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/skydive-dev

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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