Important function! Borei Data APM helps enterprises to calmly cope with the evolution of cloud-native architecture

Recently, Bonree Server, the application performance monitoring product of Bonree Data, has been fully upgraded, bringing two important R&D results in automation and observability: automatic service discovery and Docker container monitoring, allowing enterprises to move towards cloud-native architecture more calmly.

Bonree Server is an application performance monitoring product from Bonree Data, aimed at digital workers such as business, R&D, operation and maintenance, SRE, and security. It enables them to have a clear understanding, take appropriate actions, and be efficient and calm when performing tasks such as business release, monitoring, fault recovery, emergency support, and management planning.

In order to achieve true customer success and user satisfaction, Bonree Server has been improving the comprehensive observability of digital systems such as infrastructure, middleware, and application services. On this basis, Bonree Data has always focused on automated and intelligent product iterations. The comprehensive upgrade of Bonree Server has two important R&D results in automation and observability: service automatic discovery and Docker container monitoring, which can help enterprises calmly cope with the application performance monitoring challenges in the evolution of cloud-native architecture.

Automatic service discovery makes data collection more efficient

A complete and excellent monitoring system is inseparable from:
1) Data collection: comprehensive and in-depth collection of indicators, call chains, logs, metadata, etc.;
2) Establish a data analysis model: classify, summarize and transform the massive amount of data collected to provide observability;
3) Data visualization and data-driven: Visualizing analytical models facilitates observation and insights, thereby guiding decision-making and action.

The Smart Agent provided by Bonree Server has continuously innovated in data collection automation, greatly improving efficiency. In the past, to collect application performance data, different configurations were required based on different development languages, different frameworks, different environments, etc., but this approach is basically unavailable in today's containerized dynamic orchestration deployment. Smart Agent has realized automatic identification of processes that need to be monitored on the host (including processes running in containers) and automatic installation of Agents and collection of performance data.

In addition to data collection automation, in order to further improve the level of automation, Bonree Server now also brings automation in data model configuration. With the development of digital business, the complexity of IT systems is getting higher and higher, and clustering, microservices, Serverless, etc. are becoming more and more common. APM products provide process-level and code-level performance data collection. These microscopic massive performance data need to be classified and summarized to provide macroscopic observability. Many traditional APM products require you to manually specify which data belongs to which services, and face complex topologies to modify the configuration of agents (data collectors) one by one. If you have used this type of APM product, you must have had such an inefficient and painful experience. In a cloud-native environment, containers are dynamically orchestrated, and manual configuration has become a fantasy.

In many cases, the attributes and metadata of the process, the configuration and metadata of the system, etc. provide readable service information, such as IP segmentation, Docker image name, environment variables, K8S serviceName, K8S podName, etc. The Smart Agent provided by Bonree Server supports the collection of these attributes and metadata. Bonree Server automatically classifies and summarizes the performance data and draws the service-level topology based on these data, which greatly improves the observation efficiency and perfectly adapts to the monitoring and management of applications in the container environment.

In the future, Bonree Server will make more innovations in automation. Smart Agent will integrate more Agents (data collectors) to support automatic download, automatic installation, and automatic collection, thus bringing more comprehensive and richer monitoring capabilities.

Real-time monitoring of Docker container service environment

Nowadays, the digital transformation of enterprises has brought new challenges to IT, with more and more businesses and faster iterations. DevOps, containers, microservices, Serverless and other technologies have brought about the problem of difficult operation and maintenance monitoring while meeting the needs of business development. How to collect data, summarize and analyze, issue alarms, and troubleshoot in dynamic and complex IT systems? Obviously, traditional manual configuration of probes and manual sorting of data relationships are unrealistic. Only automated and intelligent monitoring systems can promote the development of digitalization under the new IT architecture.

After installing the Smart Agent provided by Bonree Server, it will automatically discover and monitor the Docker service environment. Real-time monitoring of the number of images, the number of running containers, the number of stopped containers, the resource utilization of containers, etc., helps enterprises calmly cope with the application performance monitoring challenges in the evolution of cloud-native architecture.

Bonree Data has been deeply engaged in the IT field for more than ten years, and its technical capabilities are far ahead in China. It provides enterprises with cross-domain data such as DEM, NPM, and APM, and establishes a visual full-business chain performance management system for enterprises to ensure that all-level problems are quickly discovered and located, helping enterprises to fully understand the impact of application performance on the business, improve the efficiency and quality of IT system support for digital business, and improve user experience. In the future, Bonree Server will also adapt and support more cloud-native technologies to provide customers with more comprehensive observation capabilities.