Bonree ONE 2.0: Fully launching the full-link observability journey

Recently, IDC released the "China IT Unified Operation and Maintenance Software Product Market Tracking Report, 2022H1" research report (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). In this report, ITUO's research scope has been updated, and a new research field, APM (Application Performance Management), has been added for the first time. The report analyzes the overall market definition, market environment changes, market share, and major manufacturers to help customers understand the ecological landscape of the IT operation and maintenance market and promote IT operation and maintenance to develop in a simple, efficient, and intelligent direction.

The report shows that the overall scale of China's IT unified operation and maintenance software market will reach US$280 million (RMB 1.81 billion) in the first half of 2022, a year-on-year increase of 20%. In the APM market, Borei Data ranks first in China's APM market with a share of 18.4%.

As Internet services penetrate into all walks of life, the process of digital transformation of enterprises is accelerating, and the emergence of new business models is prompting the iteration and upgrading of technology. Digital applications have become an important form for enterprises and institutions to provide services to users. As a result, the dependence of enterprise business on IT systems has become increasingly strong. On the one hand, IT systems need to ensure the rapid, continuous and high-quality delivery of business. At the same time, cloud native brings complexity to system architecture, resource environment, and traditional IT monitoring tools are scattered and complex. Due to the diversity of data types and lack of relevance, IT systems do not have true observability, resulting in business stagnation and damage, and user experience decline. Gartner's research report summarizes the shortcomings of the current IT monitoring system as follows: island-style monitoring; IT construction is out of touch with business goals; intelligent operation and maintenance is immature; new technology monitoring is not controllable enough; and agility is insufficient.

Three steps to upgrade product line

To solve these problems, reduce application failure rates, quickly locate faults, and improve user experience, an integrated intelligent observability platform is needed.

In 2008, Bonree Data took dial-up monitoring as its entry point and established itself as a SaaS product. In 2015, Bonree Data entered the APM field and focused on development through embedding and performance diagnosis. In 2022, Bonree Data combined its observations of the entire market and officially entered the field of "observability". In May of this year, Bonree Data officially released Bonree ONE 1.0, focusing on intelligence, observation, and insights. With seven years of progress, Bonree Data has taken three steps to improve its product line and continue to deepen its roots in the APM field.

Five core advantages point out the development path of observability

Last month, Bonree Data released Bonree ONE 2.0, defining version 2.0 as an observability platform and pointing out the future development path of Bonree Data.

According to product director He Anhui, the Bonree ONE 2.0 platform has five core advantages: configuration-free integrated intelligent probe - ONEAgent, online intelligent analysis technology for application performance - SuperTrace, multimodal federated query big data engine - Zeus, adaptive generative artificial intelligence technology - Swift AI, and entity-related topology intelligent construction technology - SmartTopo.

Configuration-free integrated intelligent probe-ONEAgent

Probes have a high technical threshold. Many open source probes require users to write a lot of code and do a lot of configuration before they can collect data. Borei Data's ONEAgent can be configured-free, and data can be automatically collected after installation. Borei Data's configuration-free integrated intelligent probes have been tested in the production environment for a long time, with a CPU usage of less than 1%, and can easily support more than 200,000 probes to report data at the same time.

Online intelligent analysis technology for application performance--SuperTrace

Whether the data comes from the browser, native APP, outsourced database, backend middleware, or remote call, SuperTrace can connect and correlate the collected data in the entire chain, and finally give key conclusions, such as the time taken for the entire service call, what is the current problematic code stack? What is the key error? What is the context fragment of the log related to the error? After giving these conclusions to the user, they can make analysis and judgments, and recover the problem more quickly, thus achieving end-to-end and in-depth diagnosis.

Multimodal federated query big data engine--Zeus

The multimodal federated query big data engine can provide unified encapsulation and unified write query for data in different forms, making BQL query language flexible to assemble. Zeus's advantages can be summarized into three points, namely, efficient implementation (real-time insertion, query acceleration, operator drift); federated query (multi-source joint query, flexible assembly of BQL query language); and massive storage (self-developed object storage BRFS performs 3-10 times better than Ozone and Ceph).

Adaptive Generative Artificial Intelligence Technology--Swift AI

This is also an improvement point that distinguishes Bonree ONE 2.0 from similar products in the industry. After the integration of AI in the ONE platform, it has two unique skills. The first is the domestic exclusive "unsupervised knowledge graph" root cause analysis algorithm. Bonree Data has chosen an algorithm that is more reproducible and less invasive to the business. It does not need to rely too much on the algorithm team for parameter adjustment, which is more customer-friendly. The second unique skill is the convergence algorithm of the alarm, which has a normalized convergence ratio of 98%, leading the industry.

SmartTopo, an intelligent construction technology for entity-related topology

The entity-association topology intelligent construction technology has three characteristics. The first is real-time. When various configuration status changes occur, such as when containers are online and offline, functions are created and destroyed, the topology and association relationships are continuously updated in real time to reflect the latest situation. The second is automation. No manual configuration is required, and entity association relationships are automatically obtained from observation data. The third is flexibility. A single entity perspective can directly observe its upstream and downstream, and the global topology perspective can observe the horizontal and vertical topology as needed.

Conclusion

In the cloud-native era, the deployment method based on microservices and containerized applications encapsulates the underlying technical facilities, allowing customers to focus only on the upper-level business and perceive as little of the underlying resource environment as possible. The information that system operation and maintenance is concerned about is also invisible, which puts forward the requirement of "observability" for monitoring technology. For enterprises, it is necessary to gain insight into the application status of hybrid IT infrastructure, data, network, cloud and edge terminals from a global perspective, and improve the efficiency of enterprise operation and maintenance in a more proactive, automated and intelligent manner. Therefore, the application of "observability" will become more and more extensive and in-depth. Gartner predicts that by 2024, 30% of enterprises will use observable technologies to improve the operating performance of digital businesses, which is a three-fold increase from 10% in 2020.

Of course, as an emerging technology, observability technology still faces many difficulties in its implementation. Bonree Data's Bonree ONE 2.0 platform, which uses data to drive intelligent and automated system operations, is believed to be able to help more industry users ensure the smooth and efficient implementation of business strategies and effectively improve the digital user experience.