Introduction Apache SkyWalking is an open source APM tool for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures. It provides distributed tracing, service mesh observability, metric aggregation and visualization, and alarm. In this article, I will introduce how to quickly set up Apache SkyWalking on AWS EKS and RDS/Aurora, as well as a couple of sample services, monitoring services to observe SkyWalking itself.