Alibaba Cloud was selected in the 2021 Gartner APM Magic Quadrant, the only domestic cloud vendor selected

Source | Alibaba Cloud Native Public

Recently, Gartner released the "2021 Gartner APM Magic Quadrant". Alibaba Cloud has become the only cloud vendor selected in China, and its product capabilities and strategic vision have been highly recognized by Gartner analysts.

Gartner is the world's most authoritative IT research and consulting company. Its annual Gartner APM Magic Quadrant report provides a reliable reference standard for companies to choose APM tools. In this evaluation, the application real-time monitoring service (ARMS), as the core product of Alibaba Cloud APM, participates in cooperation with cloud monitoring and log services. Gartner commented on Alibaba Cloud APM:

• China has the strongest influence: Alibaba Cloud is the largest cloud service provider in China, and Alibaba Cloud users can use cloud monitoring tools to meet their observability needs.
• Open source integration: Alibaba Cloud attaches great importance to integrating open source standards and products (such as Prometheus) into its platform.
• Cost advantage: Compared with using third-party APM products on Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Cloud APM products are more cost-effective.

Image source: 2021 Gartner APM Magic Quadrant

Currently, companies are gradually accelerating the pace of digital transformation, resulting in frequent IT system updates and a sharp increase in application complexity. Microservices, containerization and other cutting-edge technologies that were only concerned by technology companies have gradually emerged in traditional enterprises, and cloud services have long become essential technical services for enterprises to operate digital businesses on a large scale. Application performance management (APM) with user experience as the core has received widespread attention. APM has shown great value in helping enterprises realize digital transformation and intelligent operation and maintenance.

For example, after a user opens an application, thousands of calls may be involved. The response time of opening such a page is not only an indicator of front-end applications, but also an important indicator that all service centers should care about. When a problem occurs, the traditional operation and maintenance through troubleshooting and telephone notification operations are not only inefficient, but also easy to lose information. How to monitor the operation of the entire link in real time, quickly locate the root cause of the problem, and correspond to the responsible person. These are the problems that enterprises urgently need to solve in the process of servicing.

In 2017, Alibaba officially commercialized the real-time monitoring service ARMS, which has been tempered internally for many years. As a cloud-native integrated observability platform, ARMS provides full-stack performance monitoring and end-to-end full-link tracking and diagnosis capabilities. At the same time, it combines the log data analysis capabilities of Alibaba Cloud Log Service (SLS) and cloud monitoring rich cloud Service and infrastructure monitoring capabilities, users can easily complete one-stop monitoring of user experience, applications, cloud services, and containers.

Alibaba Cloud has not only established a rich product layout in the APM field, but its product capabilities have also been recognized by many customers. Relying on ARMS, Daolv Technology built and launched a real-time application monitoring system based on the big data platform within a few minutes, which greatly improved the efficiency of IT staff. Regardless of any problems in the application of China Resources Vanguard, ARMS can clearly show which line of code the problem lies in, which greatly shortens the time to repair the fault.

With the acceleration of the digital transformation of enterprises, the performance status of various enterprise applications directly affects the smooth development of digital business, and the market demand for APM products is still expanding. After more than 10 years of technical practice, Alibaba Cloud has the largest cloud-native product family and open source ecosystem in China, providing cloud-native bare metal servers, cloud-native databases, container services, microservices, observability, high availability, and more than 100 innovations Products allow enterprises to move towards cloud-native architecture more calmly.