Annual inventory review of Alibaba cloud's observable practices in 2021

author ： Bai Yu

The observability and fault analysis of the system are important measurement standards in system operation and maintenance , With the technical architecture 、 Resource units 、 Resource acquisition method 、 The evolution process of communication mode , It's a huge challenge . These challenges are also forcing the development of operation and maintenance related technologies . Throughout the development process of operation and maintenance monitoring , Monitoring and observability have developed for nearly 30 year .

Now , With the implementation of cloud native architecture , The application architecture has gradually changed from a single system to a micro service , The business logic then becomes calls and requests between microservices . At the same time, virtualization is more thorough , Container management platform is accepted by more and more enterprises , Third party components have gradually evolved into cloud services , The whole application architecture becomes the cloud native architecture . Service call path becomes longer , Make the flow direction become uncontrollable , Troubleshooting becomes more difficult . By covering the whole stack of various observable data （ indicators , journal , link , event ） The observable ability to continuously analyze the full application life process of development, test, operation and maintenance has become a necessary ability for all enterprises .

More and more enterprises realize that observability has become the primary infrastructure and necessary capability of the cloud , The observable capability domain has also evolved from a simple operation and maintenance state to a test and development state . The purpose of observability is also further extended from supporting the normal operation of business to accelerating business innovation , Let the business iterate quickly .

review 2021 year , Alibaba cloud continues to explore the field of observability , While serving millions of customers , Actively summarize and refine their own exploration and practice in the observable field . With the help of application real-time monitoring service （ARMS） Help enterprises build a stack of cloud native observable platforms .

therefore , Let's take stock today 2021 Key contents of the year , Let's review Alibaba cloud observable 2021 year .

Part 1： Quick view of key new products

（1）Grafana service ：《2021 Yunqi conference's strategic cooperation released at the open source gravity Summit ,Grafana What is service ？》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/795852​​

（2）Kubernetes monitor ：《 As containers become more widely used , How do we monitor containers ？》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/786530​​

（3） Cloud test ：《 Refuse to be a pot bearer ！ How to use website performance optimization to drive product experience improvement 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/785937​​

（4） Intelligent alarm ：《 Face the wind , How to build a highly coordinated and accurate alarm system ？》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/794013​​

（5） Application security ：《 How to strengthen application security capability , Full interception Log4j Loophole attack 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/845136​​

Part 2： A comprehensive review of the series of courses

（1） Observable series open class

《Vol.1ALL in one： How to build an end-to-end observable system 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26691​​

《Vol.2 Service full link tracking best practices 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26692​​

《Vol.3 Business & Interpretation of user experience observable scenarios 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26696​​

《Vol.4 How to establish an efficient alarm system to improve the efficiency of daily operation and maintenance 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/live/248036​​

（2） Website performance and experience optimization series of public courses

《Vol.1 How to use performance optimization to drive user experience improvement 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26181​​

《Vol.2 How to do CDN And download optimization analysis 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26215​​

《Vol.3 Hijacking discovery 、 Best practices for positioning and resolution 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26706​​

（3）《Kubernetes Monitoring series open class 》

《Vol.1 Explore application architecture , Discover unexpected network traffic 》

https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26360

《Vol.2 How to discover Kubernetes Exceptions to services and workloads in 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26421​​

《Vol.3 Use Kubernetes Monitor and discover resource usage , The problem of uneven flow distribution 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26606​​

《Vol.4 How to use Kubernetes Monitoring positioning slow calls ？》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/26835​​

《Vol.5 Use Kubernetes Monitor and locate Pod Root cause of abnormal state 》

​​https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/27006​​

Part3 ： Industry practice case sharing

《ARMS Protect the intelligent system of deep drawing and bring the ultimate user experience 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/781580​​

《 Walnut programming ： The road of front-end observability construction 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/781396​​

《 Cloud dial test power saving robot Comprehensively optimize the performance of overseas websites 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/792477​​

《 Cloud dial test helps Weidong cloud education , Comprehensively improve the global user experience 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/article/858688​​

Part4 ： Classic Ebook Download

《 Website performance and experience optimization 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/topic/download?spm=5176.25571740.J_8000295170.2.7ccf363cC16UPK&id=7952​​

《 Double 11 e-commerce website user experience report 》

​​https://developer.aliyun.com/special/download?spm=a2c6h.14164896.0.0.3d434ffbfs2YMg&id=8196​​

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