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This article explains how to design and implement a traffic distribution diagram for an observability system, covering current cloud‑native tooling, data standardization, transformation, traffic‑flow modeling, aggregation, storage with ClickHouse, and visualisation techniques such as Sankey diagrams.
Observability in distributed systems combines event logging, aggregated metrics, and request tracing—each offering distinct trade‑offs in detail, storage, and overhead—and while the ELK stack dominates log and metric handling, tracing solutions such as EagleEye and SkyWalking differ by protocol and language, prompting many teams to adopt unified, cloud‑native platforms like Alibaba Cloud’s Log Service for lower cost, real‑time analysis and simplified management.
At the 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference, New Oriental's senior operations manager Qi Chen detailed the demand, technical, and focus pressures that drove a phased, full‑process observability standardization, leveraging OpenTelemetry, Telegraf, Loki and CMDB tagging to achieve cost reduction and higher stability.
This article explains how YHP enables cloud‑native systems to achieve comprehensive observability by defining the three core signals—metrics, traces, and logs—addressing common enterprise pain points, and presenting an integrated platform that unifies data collection, storage, analysis, and visualization for efficient fault diagnosis and performance monitoring.
The article explains how combining traditional monitoring with modern observability, supported by data quality practices and unified workflows, enables more reliable, scalable, and insightful application performance management in agile and cloud‑native environments.
The article explains the importance of CI/CD observability, outlines common pipeline problems, introduces Grafana's GraCIe plugin built on OpenTelemetry, and discusses how enhanced visibility can improve reliability, decision‑making, and future standardization across CI/CD platforms.
Xiaohongshu’s observability team rebuilt its Prometheus‑based metrics platform using vmagent, dual‑active HA clusters, query push‑down, high‑cardinality governance and multi‑cloud active‑active design, delivering ten‑fold collection speed, up to 70× query capacity, massive CPU‑memory‑storage savings and fully automated scaling.
This article details how SelectDB’s inverted‑index, Variant data type, and sampling capabilities were integrated into GuanceDB to replace Elasticsearch, achieving up to 70% storage cost reduction, 2‑4× query speed improvement, and a ten‑fold overall cost‑performance boost for log analytics and observability workloads.
This article presents Qunar Travel's "system slimming" project, describing how observability techniques, a two‑stage strategy, and automated tooling were used to identify and remove unused services and code, achieving a 50% reduction in code size, a 26% cut in services, and measurable improvements in reliability and release efficiency.
At KubeCon China 2023, experts Liu Kai and Dong Shandong presented a three‑part deep dive into Kubernetes observability challenges, demonstrating how eBPF enables comprehensive data collection across all stack layers, seamless integration, and intelligent root‑cause analysis through dimension attribution, anomaly bounding, and fault‑tree methods.