Function Overview

Application Operations Management (AOM) is a one-stop, multi-dimensional O&M management platform for cloud applications. It integrates observable data sources, such as Cloud Eye, Log Tank Service (LTS), Application Performance Management (APM), real user experience, and backend link data. It also provides unified application resource management, automated O&M, and one-stop observability analysis solutions. With AOM, you can detect faults in a timely manner, monitor applications, resources, and services in real time, and improve automated O&M capability and efficiency.

• Hosting & Running: AOM seamlessly interconnects with multiple upper-layer O&M services. It can quickly collect metric data from services such as ServiceStage, FunctionGraph, and Cloud Service Engine (CSE), and display them in real time.
• Observability Analysis: Provides observable analysis capabilities such as exception detection, historical data analysis, performance analysis, correlation analysis, and scenario-based analysis through transaction/container/Prometheus monitoring based on the metric system.
• Automation: Provides functions such as batch disk cleanup, job orchestration, and script execution, and standardizes and automates routine O&M operations.
• CMDB: Provides functions such as application management and resource search, centrally manages resources and applications, and provides accurate and consistent resource configuration data for upper-layer O&M services in a timely manner.
• Collection Management: Manages plug-ins centrally and issue instructions for operation such as script delivery and execution.
• Openness: Supports reporting of native Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) data, data reporting through APIs, data viewing through Grafana, and data dumping through Kafka.

AOM monitors metric and log data from multiple dimensions at different layers in multiple scenarios. At the access center, you can quickly connect metrics and logs to monitor. After the connection is complete, you can view the metrics, logs, and statuses of related resources or applications on the Metric Browsing page.

With a dashboard, different graphs (such as line graphs and digit graphs) are displayed on the same screen, so you can view metric data or log data comprehensively. You can add key resource metrics to a dashboard and monitor them in real time. You can also compare the same metric of different resources on one screen. In addition, you can add routine O&M metrics to a dashboard so that you can perform routine checks without re-selecting metrics when you open AOM again.

Alarm management allows you to query alarms, so that you can quickly detect, locate, and rectify faults. AOM provides both alarms and events. By customizing notification actions, you can obtain alarm information by email or Short Message Service (SMS) message. In this way, you can detect and handle exceptions at the earliest time. 

The Metric Browsing page displays metric data of each resource. You can monitor metric values and trends in real time, and create alarm rules for real-time service data monitoring and analysis.

AOM is a unified platform for observability analysis and does not provide log functions by itself. Instead, it integrates the log functions of Log Tank Service (LTS). You can perform operations on the AOM 2.0 or LTS console.

AOM provides strong log management capability. It collects logs of Linux ECSs or bare metal server and displays them on the AOM page for search. Log search helps you quickly find required logs from a large number of logs. After configuring VM log collection path, you can collect customized log files and display them on the AOM page for search. Log dump helps you achieve long-term storage. Access LTS can add access rules, you can map logs of CCE, CCI, or custom clusters in AOM to LTS. Then you can view and analyze logs on LTS. Log Streams helps you quickly query required logs from a large number of logs and locate faults by analyzing log source information and raw context data.

Application Insight provides application monitoring, CMDB, and log ingestion functions. Through application monitoring, you can learn about the resource usage, status, and alarms of applications in a timely manner to quickly respond to requests and ensure smooth system running. CMDB centrally manages resource objects and applications, and provides accurate, consistent resource configuration data in time for AOM, LTS, and APM. It also provides data configuration interfaces for maintaining third-party systems. Log ingestion allows you to view logs on the AOM console in real time.

Prometheus monitoring fully interconnects with the open-source Prometheus ecosystem. It monitors various components, and provides multiple out-of-the-box dashboards and fully hosted Prometheus services.

You can create log metric rules to extract ELB log data reported to LTS as metrics and monitor them on the metric browsing and dashboard pages.

AOM provides the infrastructure monitoring function to monitor workloads, clusters, hosts, processes, and cloud services.Through workload monitoring, you can learn about the resource usage, status, and alarms of workloads in a timely manner. Cluster monitoring allows you to monitor multiple basic monitoring indicators and related alarms and events of a cluster in real time. Host monitoring displays resource usage, trends, and alarms. With process monitoring, you can configure rules to discover and collect applications deployed on your hosts and associated metrics to monitor applications and components. Cloud service monitoring displays service instance statuses and metric usage in graphs such as line graphs and digit graphs.

Automation depends on Huawei Cloud UniAgent capabilities. It supports atomic operations such as batch script execution, file distribution, and cloud service change. It allows you to orchestrate atomic operations, and assemble them into jobs and form standard O&M processes. Automation accumulates routine O&M operations and releases them as services for standardized, automatic, and non-differentiated O&M. It frees O&M personnel from repeated and complex application change operations, improves O&M quality and efficiency, and helps enterprises transform O&M to improve value.

AOM provides Service Authorization, Authentication, Global Settings, Data Subscription, Log Setting, and Menu Settings functions. Service Authorization allows you to grant the permissions to access multiple cloud services in one click. Authentication allows you to create an access code and configure API service invoking permissions for the current user. You can use the global settings to control the metric collection switch and the TMS tag switch of the alarm message content display resource. Through Data Subscription, you can subscribe to indicators or alarm information. On the Log Settings page, you can set quotas, configure delimiters, and control the ICAgent collection switch. You can customize whether to display or hide functions such as Overview and Application Insight in the navigation pane of the console. On the Collection Settings page, you can install and manage the UniAgent, manage the ICAgent plug-in in the CCE cluster in a unified manner, manage host groups and proxy areas, and view operation logs of the UniAgent and ICAgent plug-in.