On September 25, the Seminar on Full-Stack, Full-Chain, Three-dimensional Observability Technology Innovation and Application sponsored by the Stability Assurance Laboratory of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology and co-organized by Kelai was successfully held. Based on the latest development trends and application scenarios of observability technology, this seminar shared best practice cases of observability, and many key units and leading enterprise technical leaders and industry experts participated in the seminar to jointly explore the implementation practice and future development direction of observability technology in enterprises.
01Modern information systems urgently need to build deep insight capabilities
Zheng Li, deputy director of the Cloud Computing Department of the Cloud University Institute of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, pointed out in his speech that with the rapid development of information technology, digital transformation has become a global consensus, and all walks of life are accelerating towards intelligence and digitalization.
In the subsequent "Interpretation of the Observability Standard System and Standard Planning of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology", Mr. Liu Kun from the Yunda Institute of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology shared the overview of observability construction, standard system, development trend and other dimensions, interpreted the research work of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology in observability technology, and shared the next observability industry standard plan.
02Build a solid foundation for high-quality development and build a new core for business stability
In his speech, Mr. Zhu Caowei of Industrial Securities shared the practice of network observability technology in the digital intelligence infrastructure of Industrial Securities. According to him, the technical practice in the field of network observability of Industrial Securities aims to empower the business with intelligent operation and maintenance of infrastructure, and carries out planning based on the full-path observation of the customer behavior journey of network traffic.
With the vision of "Digital Intelligence Certificate" and the goal of "Strong Guarantee, Hyper-integration, and Promoting Development", we will promote the group-wide digital and intelligent transformation, build a new generation of group data centers, and build a solid foundation for digital and intelligent infrastructure. In this context, the construction of observability is an important prerequisite for Industrial Securities to realize the integration and improvement of basic operation and maintenance and business service monitoring, and the optimization of service guarantee capabilities of enterprise upper-layer applications.
"The development of cloud computing has brought new challenges to business assurance and O&M, and the advent of the cloud era has also accelerated the development of observability." Mr. Ji Jiapeng of Kelai Network mentioned that while enterprises rely on modern cloud-native and microservice architecture to provide strong productivity, IT applications are becoming more and more complex, and there are more and more interdependences and interactions between services, so that it is very difficult to sort out and gain insight into business conditions.
In order to help customers solve the problem of unified monitoring in complex cloud environments and multi-source heterogeneous resource pools, Kelai has launched an intelligent, full-chain, full-stack, and integrated analysis intelligent cloud-network observability platform, which can realize integrated intelligent operation and maintenance in and out of the cloud, truly realize full-stack and full-chain performance tracking, automatically draw a cloud-network panoramic topology, and realize accurate fault discovery and rapid location and traceability.
Mr. Li Ke of Geely Holding Group shared the process and experience of enterprise observability construction and transformation. He believes that building an SRE O&M system based on observability is a major trend in the current IT O&M field, and it is also an inevitable development affected by the transformation of technology, concept, and business.
In the speech, it was mentioned that compared with traditional monitoring, observability provides a more comprehensive, real-time and actionable perspective, and now there are a large number of links and tool platforms such as operation visualization, alarm center, monitoring, operation, host, SLA, business topping, etc., which realize centralized monitoring and management of data through multi-dimensional visualization, helping engineers quickly locate problems and make decisions.
As an early cloud service provider in the field of cloud computing in China, Alibaba Cloud has been carrying out many years of technical accumulation, Mr. Yi Xin of Alibaba Cloud introduced the exploration and practice of Alibaba Cloud in cloud network observability in recent years by sharing Alibaba Cloud's network traffic opening and analysis solution, and explained the infinite possibilities of observability in the digital era to the guests and the audience from another perspective.
He believes that observability is a powerful tool to solve the current increasingly complex IT system operation and maintenance dilemma, and has unique value in improving automation, intelligent operation and maintenance, and efficiency process optimization.
Also based on the perspective of the leading cloud vendors in China, Mr. Wang Yifan gave a speech on the theme of "Exploration and Practice of Continuous Performance Analysis and Interactive Diagnosis", and explained the difficulties and key technologies encountered in the research and development process.
He believes that only when it can be observed, it can be optimized, and in the current context of everything as code, almost all security, performance and reliability problems can be solved at the code level, so the observability of applications at the code level is becoming more and more important. In the current context of everything as code, almost all security, performance and reliability problems can be solved at the code level, so the observability of applications at the code level is becoming more and more important.
03 Roundtable Discussion: Present and Future of Observability
In the roundtable session, all the guests had an online dialogue on the spot, discussed the development context and trend of observability technology at the same frequency, and the guests had a heated discussion and exchange on the difficulties of enterprise construction of observable systems and the value of observable data.
As a trending technology for digital transformation, observability has become a key strategy for many enterprises to prepare for digital and intelligent transformation in IT construction, and it has irreplaceable significance for different enterprise scenarios such as business cloud migration and deep transformation of distributed architecture. The guests present expressed their views based on their respective industry construction experience and unique perspectives, which brought a lot of inspiration to the audience.
As one of the first vendors to begin to accumulate and explore the observability of digital systems, Kelai has a deep and cutting-edge observability technology foundation and mature practical experience, and has previously won many honors such as "Excellent Case of Stable and Secure Operation of Cloud System" and "Excellent Case of Excellent Practice of Observability" by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and has been affirmed in customer service and business assurance in a large number of key industries such as finance, energy, and operators.
In the future, Kelai will continue to deepen the research on observability and digital IT business stability assurance, provide technical support for customers' business development, and help more enterprises give full play to the value of data.