This tutorial walks through setting up the lightweight Loki log aggregation system together with Grafana using Docker Compose, integrating Loki into a SpringBoot application via the loki‑logback‑appender, and configuring Grafana dashboards to visualize distributed logs on a low‑memory server.
Using the recent OpenAI service disruption as a case study, this article examines the stability challenges of large‑scale Kubernetes deployments and details how Alibaba Cloud Container Service and its Prometheus‑based observability solutions enhance reliability through high‑availability architecture, optimized exporters, out‑of‑band data links, and best‑practice guidelines.
This article explains the importance of network stability, outlines major real‑world outages, and introduces synthetic monitoring—its functions, advantages, disadvantages, and various types such as protocol, browser, and internal monitoring—while comparing probe point categories and guiding enterprises on selecting the right strategy to improve service reliability and performance.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM) to add infrastructure‑level observability for large language model (LLM) traffic, covering custom access‑log fields, new Prometheus metrics for token usage, and adding model dimensions to native Istio metrics, with step‑by‑step commands and configuration examples.
The article recaps Zhihu's Cloud Native Innovation Forum where experts from AutoMQ, OceanBase, and Flashcat shared practical solutions on streaming data ingestion, unified database architectures, and AI‑driven observability, highlighting real‑world deployments, performance optimizations, and cost‑saving strategies.
Alibaba Cloud’s recent research breakthroughs—Mint, a cost‑efficient tracing framework that captures all request flows while drastically cutting storage and network overhead, and FAMOS, a multi‑modal fault‑diagnosis method for microservice systems—have been accepted to the prestigious ASPLOS and ICSE conferences, marking the first top‑conference publications in observability for the company.
An in‑depth post‑mortem reveals how OpenAI’s newly deployed telemetry service generated massive Kubernetes API requests, overloading the API server, breaking DNS resolution, and slowing recovery, while contrasting OpenAI’s approach with LoongCollector/iLogtail’s design to minimize API load and improve cluster stability.
This article analyses the OpenAI large‑scale Kubernetes outage, explains the inherent risks of massive K8s clusters, and presents Alibaba Cloud's architectural enhancements, observability improvements, and best‑practice guidelines to achieve high‑availability and reliable operation of thousands‑node Kubernetes environments.
This article outlines a practical, end‑to‑end approach for identifying and resolving both error‑related and slow‑request problems in online systems by leveraging trace links, correlated logs, entity relationships, and large‑language‑model‑driven analysis to achieve rapid root‑cause isolation.
The Kubernetes Community Day held in Jakarta on November 30, 2024 featured Alibaba Cloud experts presenting best‑practice sessions on scaling generative AI workloads, eRDMA network acceleration, container image security, and OpenTelemetry‑based observability within the ACK Kubernetes platform.
This comprehensive guide explores Spring Boot 3.4’s performance boosts, enhanced observability, and developer experience improvements, detailing major changes such as RestClient/RestTemplate auto‑configuration, bean validation updates, graceful shutdown, structured logging formats, observability enhancements, dependency upgrades, testing enhancements, and deprecated feature handling, with practical code snippets.
This article explains how to integrate SkyWalking's distributed tracing with an ELK logging stack, embed Trace IDs into logs via SkyWalking layouts or MDC, and use Kibana to query and visualize trace‑linked log data for comprehensive microservice observability.
This article details how 58 Group’s cloud authentication service introduced an observability framework—optimizing logs, employing distributed tracing, defining SLO/SLA metrics, and implementing burn‑rate alerts—to improve fault detection, reduce false alarms, and achieve faster root‑cause analysis across the system.
Spring Boot 3.4 introduces performance boosts, enhanced observability, and developer experience improvements, and this guide walks you through the most critical changes—including RestClient auto‑configuration, bean validation updates, graceful shutdown, structured logging formats, dependency upgrades, testing enhancements, and deprecated feature handling—complete with configuration snippets and code examples.
This article compares Zabbix and Prometheus across performance, data collection, visualization, and alerting, highlighting their architectural differences, ecosystem strengths, and suitability for traditional data‑center monitoring versus dynamic cloud‑native workloads.
The article explains how browser‑based synthetic monitoring can observe the full user experience, use rich assertions and multi‑step scripts to spot CDN supply‑chain poisoning and traffic hijacking, illustrated with real polyfill.io and BootCDN attack cases.
This article explains how China Mobile built a hybrid‑cloud production environment for its customer‑service LLM, using eBPF and WebAssembly plugins from DeepFlow to achieve zero‑intrusion observability, automatically capture full‑stack topology, application/network metrics, and key LLM business indicators such as TTFT, TPOT, and token throughput.
Celebrating iLogtail’s two‑year open‑source anniversary, this article explores the journeys of community committers, their technical contributions such as Kafka dynamic‑topic support and data flattening, and how their work advances cloud‑native observability and log collection for enterprises.
This guide walks through deploying VictoriaLogs in Kubernetes with Helm, configuring Promtail, exploring its LogsSQL query language, comparing resource usage to Grafana Loki, and integrating the VictoriaLogs datasource into Grafana for efficient, low‑overhead log monitoring.
This article examines the evolution from ARMS Java Agent to the OTel‑based Alibaba Cloud Java Agent 4.x, comparing tracing, metrics, logging, and profiling capabilities, highlighting innovative designs such as muzzle‑check and VirtualField, and detailing the performance, stability, and community contributions that make the new agent a superior observability solution.
Microservices are evolving toward 2025 with trends such as edge computing, container orchestration via Kubernetes, DevSecOps, serverless functions, AI-driven management, advanced observability, API gateways, service meshes, multi-language services, event-driven designs, improved data handling, low-code integration, and stronger resilience, reshaping agile, scalable software development.
The article describes a high‑efficiency, cross‑device real‑time troubleshooting system for live‑streaming services, covering its motivation, key monitoring, unified trace design, component evolution, data processing, storage, and visualization, and demonstrates how these measures dramatically improved issue‑resolution speed and system stability.
This article explains how zero‑intrusion eBPF technology enables detailed, non‑disruptive TCP network monitoring, covering data collection interfaces, aggregation methods, implementation steps, usage limitations, and practical installation and visualization guidance for improving network performance and fault analysis.
During the 24th GOPS Global Operations Conference, Migu Interactive Entertainment’s Vice President Su Yi discussed how their AI‑driven AIOps observability framework, validated by ITU standards, enhances cloud gaming platform stability, accelerates issue detection, and supports China Mobile’s 5G‑based digital transformation.
This article shares practical Prometheus best‑practice tips—from understanding its accuracy‑reliability trade‑offs and self‑monitoring, to avoiding NFS storage, managing high‑cardinality metrics, handling rate() and recording‑rule pitfalls, and fine‑tuning alerting—so you can run a stable, low‑cost monitoring stack.
This article examines how test teams can enhance application observability and quality assurance by distinguishing observability from traditional monitoring, defining goals, outlining a monitoring foundation, and proposing module‑level and system‑level strategies for proactive fault detection, data analysis, and alerting.
This article examines how quality assurance engineers can adopt observability principles—distinct from conventional monitoring—to enhance system health detection, root‑cause analysis, and proactive risk mitigation across resources, services, business functions, data, and logs.
Migu Interactive Entertainment’s interview reveals how its cloud gaming platform leveraged AI, 5G, and standardized observability practices to pass both international and domestic AIOps assessments, highlighting the strategic importance of intelligent operations for business continuity in complex, distributed systems.
Effective logging is crucial for developers to diagnose system errors, and this article compares traditional monolithic file‑based logging with modern microservice‑oriented solutions such as ELK, MongoDB, and Loki, outlining their architectures, advantages, and selection criteria.
The article summarizes Alibaba Cloud's 2024 conference talks on AI‑enhanced observability, presenting a cloud‑native GitOps solution for massive clusters and showcasing large‑model applications in intelligent Q&A and diagnosis to improve operational stability, cost, and efficiency.
This article examines the traditional ELK stack, compares iLogtail with Filebeat and Logstash in real‑world performance tests, analyzes why iLogtail could not previously replace Logstash, and presents five concrete engineering solutions that enable iLogtail to become a viable, high‑performance alternative for log collection and processing.
iLogtail, a lightweight log collector, has transformed over 13 years from a simple log‑gathering tool into a full‑stack, cloud‑native observability platform, introducing Go plugins, high‑performance C++ pipelines, SPL processing, modular architecture, and advanced self‑monitoring, reflecting broader trends in data collection technology.
Kyanos is an open‑source command‑line utility that leverages eBPF to provide low‑overhead, kernel‑compatible network tracing and performance analysis for HTTP, MySQL, and Redis traffic, offering simple watch and stat commands that replace slow tcpdump workflows with seconds‑level diagnostics.
The presentation outlines Alibaba Cloud's ACK container service observability framework, covering its architecture, key capabilities such as eBPF‑based tracing, GPU profiling, network diagnostics, storage monitoring, and FinOps integration, and demonstrates how these features support AI workloads, large‑scale production stability, and automated incident response.
This article explores the challenges of linking Real User Monitoring (RUM) with backend tracing, presents a comprehensive end-to-end traceability solution based on OpenTelemetry and the W3C Trace Context protocol, and offers best-practice guidance for integrating RUM into full-stack observability pipelines.
This article chronicles iLogtail's 13‑year journey—from its 2013 inception as a basic log collector to a fully open‑source, cloud‑native observability platform—highlighting technical milestones, emerging trends in log agents, architectural innovations, performance breakthroughs, and future directions.
Apache HoraeDB (CeresDB) is an open‑source, distributed, high‑availability time‑series database developed by Ant Group, supporting multi‑dimensional queries, compatible with Prometheus and OpenTSDB, and offering SQL and OLAP capabilities for use cases such as APM, IoT monitoring, financial analytics, and AI‑infra observability.
Observability turns a black‑box application into a system by gathering logs, metrics, and traces, using alerts to spot anomalies, then linking trace IDs to logs; OpenTelemetry standardizes this with instrumented client agents, a Collector (receivers, processors, exporters), and backend storage, while Java agents, span propagation, exemplars, eBPF, and bundles like SigNoz or OpenObserve let teams choose between a custom OTel stack or a solution.
Prometheus 3.0‑beta introduces a completely redesigned UI, Remote Write 2.0 with native support for metadata and histograms, built‑in OpenTelemetry metrics handling, UTF‑8 label support, native histograms, and several feature‑flag removals, while encouraging community testing before production use.
Bilibili rebuilt its monitoring platform to handle explosive metric growth by separating collection, storage, and compute, adopting VictoriaMetrics, zone‑based scheduling, and Flink‑driven pre‑aggregation, which together improved stability, query performance, cloud data quality, and overall observability.
This article explains how to monitor Go goroutine state transitions without modifying source code by attaching eBPF uprobes to the runtime.casgstatus function, defining a custom data struct, using a ring buffer to deliver events, and processing them in a Go user‑space program.
This tutorial walks through setting up a local k3d cluster, installing Higress, and using its AI plugins—including AI Proxy, AI JSON formatter, AI Agent, and AI Statistics—to integrate and observe Alibaba Cloud's Qwen large language models across various use cases such as weather and flight queries.
The article presents MyPerf4J, a Java‑agent based, low‑overhead performance monitoring library that provides real‑time metrics such as method latency, QPS, memory usage, GC statistics, and class loading, along with quick‑start instructions, configuration details, and open‑source links for Java backend services.
The article explains the components and workflows of ELK, EFK, and PLG (Promtail + Loki + Grafana) logging stacks, compares their architectures, and highlights the trade‑offs between Elasticsearch‑based solutions and Loki‑based solutions for observability in cloud‑native environments.
The article details Bilibili's evolution of its monitoring platform, describing the stability and performance challenges of a Prometheus‑Thanos stack, the redesign using VictoriaMetrics, collection‑storage separation, unit‑level disaster recovery, query‑tree auto‑replacement, Flink‑based pre‑aggregation, Grafana upgrades, and future roadmap for observability.
This guide walks through the purpose, advantages, required Linux packages, Go libraries, exact installation commands, and version details needed to set up a functional eBPF development environment on an Ubuntu system, while explaining each step’s rationale.
This article analyzes the emerging AI Gateway market, compares major products such as Kong, Gloo, Higress, Portkey, and OneAPI, and provides a detailed technical review of Cloudflare AI Gateway’s architecture, capabilities, advantages, limitations, and practical usage for LLM integration.
By deploying eBPF agents as DaemonSets that hook kernel network and performance events, the Xiaohongshu observability team extended cloud‑native monitoring from the application to the kernel, delivering real‑time traffic analysis and low‑overhead continuous profiling for C++ services, aggregating data into centralized collectors for dashboards, flame‑graphs, and rapid root‑cause diagnosis.
This article examines the migration from Thanos to VictoriaMetrics for large‑scale metric storage, detailing background challenges, VictoriaMetrics architecture and storage engine, data write and read processes, and a comparative analysis of performance, scalability, and operational costs between the two systems.
This article compiles practical advice for Java developers feeling out‑of‑practice, covering migration to JDK 21, Spring Boot 3.2 observability, new language features, community resources, and strategies to boost confidence and stay current with the evolving Java ecosystem.
The two‑year iLogtail community survey reveals that high performance, container‑friendly design, and a rich plugin ecosystem drive adoption, while users request better documentation, a more active development roadmap, and improved configuration tools to boost community participation and ecosystem growth.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Prometheus, covering its architecture, suitable and unsuitable use cases, data model with TSDB and WAL, metric types, PromQL query language, and practical examples for monitoring CPU, memory, and disk usage in Kubernetes environments.
This article walks through SkyWalking, an open‑source APM solution, covering its architecture, server and client installation, configuration for MySQL persistence, log collection, performance profiling, and alerting, while comparing it with Spring Cloud Sleuth + Zipkin and showing practical code examples.
This tutorial walks through setting up OpenTelemetry tracing from scratch for both Java and Go microservices, covering collector and Jaeger deployment, required dependencies, configuration parameters, code examples for automatic and manual instrumentation, and how to add custom span attributes and spans.
A two‑year community survey of the open‑source iLogtail collector reveals that high performance, container‑friendly design, extensive plugin ecosystem, and strong Kubernetes integration drive widespread production use, while users request better documentation, a more polished ConfigServer tool, and clearer contribution pathways.
This article analyzes the current state of DevOps adoption in China, presents detailed CI/CD capability levels with a maturity model table, and discusses future operational trends such as automation, AIOps, security integration, observability, and reliability engineering to guide enterprises toward more efficient software delivery.
MyPerf4J is a high‑performance, non‑intrusive Java Agent that records millions of method calls per second with nanosecond precision, offering real‑time metrics, low memory overhead, and comprehensive monitoring for both development and production environments.
This article explains how the SLS Processing Language (SPL) combines pipeline syntax with SQL‑like operators, introduces a high‑performance mode that pushes computation to storage nodes and uses vectorized processing, and demonstrates sub‑second query times on billions of log entries while supporting rich filtering, histogram visualization, and random paging.
This article chronicles the two‑year evolution of iLogtail into LoongCollector, detailing its origins, technical milestones, community contributions, feature set—including high‑performance pipelines, programmable SPL, extensive K8s support, and unified config management—and outlines the roadmap that positions it as a leading cloud‑native observability solution.
This guide shows how to implement end‑to‑end trace ID propagation across Spring Cloud gateways, downstream services, and asynchronous threads using a custom GlobalTraceFilter, a patched LogbackMDCAdapter with Alibaba TransmittableThreadLocal, and minimal configuration, avoiding heavyweight tracing libraries.
This article explains why ELK alone lacks Trace ID support, describes the architectures of SkyWalking and ELK, compares their capabilities, and provides step‑by‑step configurations—including a Logback layout and MDC approach—to embed Trace IDs into logs for full distributed tracing.
Log data’s immutable, random, and multi‑source nature makes traditional search inefficient, so Alibaba Cloud’s SLS introduces the SPL pipeline language, combining Unix‑style piping with SQL‑like functions, and leverages computation push‑down, vectorized processing, and optimized I/O to deliver high‑performance log queries at scale.
This article details how Bilibili redesigned its monitoring system to overcome explosive metric growth by separating collection and storage, adopting VictoriaMetrics, implementing zone‑based scheduling, automating PromQL query replacement, and using Flink for efficient pre‑aggregation, resulting in dramatically lower latency and higher stability.
This article explains how to combine SkyWalking and the ELK stack to embed Trace IDs into logs, enabling end‑to‑end request tracing, discusses the strengths and limitations of each platform, and provides configuration examples for Logback, MDC, and Kibana visualisation.
The new Monitoring 2.0 architecture separates collection, compute and storage, adopts VictoriaMetrics for compact time‑series storage and a zone‑based scheduler, introduces push‑based ingestion, uses Flink for real‑time pre‑aggregation and automatic PromQL rewrite, delivering ten‑fold query speedups, sub‑300 ms p90 latency, and dramatically higher write and query throughput.
Before launching costly observability initiatives, ensure your monitoring is comprehensive and efficient, covering business, application, component, resource, network, and endpoint metrics, and that you have the data collection, storage, alerting, and event‑distribution capabilities to turn raw signals into actionable insights.
This article details how Alibaba Cloud's iLogtail agent, serving tens of thousands of hosts and containers, overcomes unique stability challenges through a comprehensive SRE approach that spans design, development, testing, gray‑release, operations, and customer‑support, ultimately boosting reliability and reducing incident rates.
This article explains why true observability is essential for modern software, outlines its five core pillars, details a four‑stage maturity model with benefits and drawbacks, and provides practical steps—including data collection, team organization, and AI automation—to advance from basic monitoring to predictive, self‑healing systems.
Alibaba Taotian’s testing platform now lets business owners self‑service reliable environments by binding accounts to isolated routes, monitoring lightweight health metrics with automated self‑healing, accelerating deployments via code caching and JVM tricks, and enabling rapid “time‑travel” scenario testing, while planning tighter observability and production alignment.
This extensive article presents a systematic approach to front‑end stability, covering observability systems, full‑chain monitoring, high‑availability design, performance management, risk governance, process mechanisms, and engineering practices to ensure reliable user experiences and business continuity.
This guide walks you through Loki, a lightweight log aggregation system, covering its architecture, advantages, deployment options (All‑In‑One, Kubernetes, and bare‑metal), Promtail configuration, Helm installation, and common troubleshooting steps for reliable log collection and querying in Grafana.
This article details the end‑to‑end redesign of Quora Travel's Watcher monitoring platform from minute‑level to second‑level precision, covering architectural changes, storage engine migration, client‑side metric collection, server‑side scheduling, dashboard and alarm adaptations, and the resulting operational improvements.
This article compares popular log aggregation stacks—ELK, EFK, and the PLG combination of Promtail, Loki, and Grafana—detailing their components, architecture, and trade‑offs for cloud‑native environments such as Kubernetes.
Bilibili’s one‑stop Big Data Cluster Management Platform (BMR) consolidates HDFS, Spark, Flink, ClickHouse, Kafka and other services into a unified system that evolved through four stages—standardization, metadata‑driven construction, containerization, and observability—addressing node consistency, scaling, fault self‑healing, and resource optimization while delivering elastic scaling, automated start/stop, and future cost‑saving and stability enhancements.
This article explains how Spring Boot 3.2 can be accelerated with Class Data Sharing, virtual threads, GraalVM native images, ProblemDetail error handling, and new observability features, providing practical commands and code examples for faster startup, lower memory usage, and richer monitoring.
This article explains how Prometheus generates and sends alerts, covering the definition of alert rules with PromQL, grouping, templating, configuring evaluation intervals, deploying a custom alert receiver in Kubernetes, and analyzing alert payloads and delivery frequency, while also detailing alert silencing and resolution behavior.
This article explains how to use Alibaba Service Mesh (ASM) to register large language model (LLM) providers, configure LLMProvider and LLMRoute resources, and implement traffic routing, observability, and security for LLM services through step‑by‑step Kubernetes manifests and curl tests.
Learn how to enable comprehensive observability in Spring Boot 3.2.5 by leveraging Micrometer’s @Timed, @Counted, and @MeterTag annotations, configuring Actuator endpoints, and customizing aspects to monitor method execution time, request counts, and parameters, complete with practical code examples and Prometheus integration.
This article explains what OpenTelemetry is, its core components, key terminology, benefits, usage steps, and detailed architecture—including APIs, SDK pipelines, and the collector—providing a comprehensive overview for developers and operators seeking vendor‑neutral observability solutions.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has officially welcomed Huawei Cloud’s open‑source high‑performance time‑series database project openGemini, highlighting its role in advancing cloud‑native database technology, supporting massive observability data storage and analysis, and fostering community growth and industry adoption.
This article discusses essential Kubernetes monitoring topics, including cost tracking, tool selection, observability frameworks, responsibility allocation, baseline establishment, namespace best practices, the importance of monitoring, backup solutions, and a comparison of Datadog versus Splunk for metrics.
This article details how a large restaurant chain leveraged the open‑source Sentinel framework to implement comprehensive traffic protection, rate limiting, and circuit‑breaking across millions of daily orders, describing challenges, design choices, high‑availability rule distribution, monitoring, user‑experience considerations, and providing Java code examples for integration.
This article explains the concept of observability, details Prometheus metric definitions and types, and provides Go code examples for exposing, defining, generating, and scraping business‑level metrics in a Kubernetes‑based cloud‑native environment.
This article explains the fundamentals of distributed tracing in microservice environments, introduces OpenTracing standards, details SkyWalking's architecture and sampling strategies, evaluates its performance against competitors, and shares practical company adaptations such as custom plugins, forced sampling, and trace ID logging.
Jaeger is an open‑source, CNCF‑graduated distributed tracing system built by Uber, and this guide explains its core concepts, architecture, sampling strategies, and various deployment options—including all‑in‑one, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry—plus how it compares with other tracing tools.
Meituan’s Tech Salon Session 77 describes how the company built a generic JavaScript‑hooking SDK packaged as an NPM module to give mini‑programs on platforms such as WeChat, Alipay and Kuaishou observable and controllable capabilities across UI, storage, network and system layers, enabling automated cache management, request mocking, state inspection and visual diff testing, which the ticket team leveraged to achieve over 30 % test scenario coverage, 100 % page coverage and discover hundreds of defects, while outlining future plans to stabilize and expand the framework.
iLogtail 2.0 introduces an SPL processing mode that outperforms Logstash’s filter plugins in functionality, resource consumption, and throughput across multiple test scenarios, offering lower CPU and memory usage, faster start‑up, and superior handling of complex JSON and high‑volume log streams.
Qunar’s Watcher monitoring platform was upgraded from minute‑level to second‑level precision, redesigning storage, data collection, and alerting pipelines, adopting VictoriaMetrics, enhancing client SDKs, and adding fine‑grained alarm rules, which reduced fault detection from four minutes to under one minute while improving reliability and scalability.
This article explains a new visualized full‑chain log tracing solution that organizes business logs by logical flow, dynamically links them during execution, and provides a visual, searchable view of the entire business process, dramatically improving issue localization in large‑scale distributed systems.
This article explains the background of metrics in cloud‑native systems, shows how to expose custom Prometheus metrics using OpenTelemetry's MeterProvider, compares different exporters, and provides a complete Pulsar client example with code snippets and configuration for end‑to‑end observability.
This article recounts a two‑year journey of moving from Ansible‑based EC2 deployments to a Kubernetes‑centric platform, detailing motivations, migration strategies, operational challenges, tooling choices, cost considerations, and practical lessons for teams contemplating a similar cloud‑native transformation.
This article introduces eBPF, explains its zero‑intrusion observability advantages, describes its architecture and runtime workflow, outlines development prerequisites and compilation steps, and provides concrete Go‑based examples for tracing bash commands and measuring TCP connection latency.
The article describes a unified front‑end observability platform that standardizes data‑point collection via a common SDK, automatically generates health and business dashboards, integrates real‑time monitoring and heatmaps, and has been adopted on 140 pages, delivering faster first‑screen loads, lower error and bounce rates, and higher conversion.
The article examines how the shift to Software‑Defined Vehicles introduces complex performance engineering challenges across software, hardware, and organizational domains, and proposes an engineering‑driven, continuous‑observability approach—including modeling, monitoring, iterative optimization, and specialized team structures—to sustainably improve automotive software performance.
AI gateways have emerged as essential infrastructure for modern AI applications, offering specialized security, load balancing, cost management, and observability that go beyond traditional API gateways, and understanding their differences and deployment considerations is crucial for developers and ops teams.
This article explains how to extend eBPF to make virtio‑net NIC queue metrics observable, walks through the front‑end send/receive flow, defines key queue indices, integrates the probes into the rtrace tool, and demonstrates fault detection with real‑time data.
This article details Huya's transition from fragmented, non‑standard monitoring solutions to a unified OpenTelemetry‑based platform, covering project background, pain points, design decisions, SDK architecture, data pipeline, storage, alerting, root‑cause analysis, and future plans, highlighting the benefits of standardization and zero‑cost service integration.
This article explains the evolution of iLogtail from a single‑file collector to a multi‑language, plugin‑based observability pipeline, outlines the motivations for refactoring, describes the new unified data model, plugin abstractions, pipeline design, configuration management, hot‑reload mechanisms, and the separation of enterprise and open‑source code, providing a comprehensive view of the architectural upgrade.
This article explains the unique business characteristics of large‑scale supercomputing workloads, outlines the observability challenges they pose, and details how Alibaba Cloud Prometheus host monitoring provides automated service discovery, rapid probe deployment, fine‑grained metrics, and ready‑to‑use Grafana dashboards to achieve second‑level monitoring at massive scale.
This article explains why distributed tracing is essential for modern cloud‑native systems, outlines the three toughest problems—instrumentation, data collection, and context propagation—and shows how Alibaba Cloud ARMS and OpenTelemetry provide a comprehensive, multi‑language solution for end‑to‑end traceability.
