Tingyun CTO: AWS and Tingyun join hands to create a domestic cloud + APM model

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Recently, the AWS Technology Summit was held in Beijing and the AWS China Partner Program was announced, which will provide partners with support in business, technology, marketing and product launch, thereby promoting partners to use the AWS platform to conduct business. Tingyun also announced that it would join the AWS ecosystem to provide application performance management services to cloud computing users. Tingyun CTO Wood said that Tingyun is currently cooperating with AWS and Tingyun's deployment plan will be seen on AWS MarketPlace early next year.

Tingyun joins hands with AWS to create a domestic cloud + APM model

It is understood that Tingyun and AWS will cooperate on three levels in the future: first, Tingyun will join AWS MarketPlace, and Tingyun Server's data collection service and console will be deployed on AWS; second, for AWS users, Tingyun Server will provide AWS platform-specific service support, such as integrated support for CloudWatch API, and support for AWS's RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and other server-side access performance; third, provide a privatization solution based on AMI deployment, including probes and data analysis platforms.

Wood said, "In the past, many users built their own computer rooms or rented servers, but with the rapid development of cloud computing, more customers will choose cloud deployment. In order to package performance monitoring services into standard cloud services, Tingyun Server will be added to AWS MarketPlace to provide users with more personalized and convenient services."

Tingyun has been established for eight years and has been focusing on large enterprises for eight years. With the rapid development of cloud computing and mobile Internet, more small and medium-sized enterprises and even ordinary developers need performance management services. Therefore, through cooperation with cloud computing vendors, Tingyun provides its products to small and medium-sized customers in the form of SaaS.

This time, Tingyun becomes one of the first APM partners of AWS China and will provide high-quality application performance management services to global users.

Internationalization

Wood said that Tingyun has been working on internationalization for a long time. All of Tingyun's systems are bilingual, with at least one being in English. Therefore, companies such as Microsoft and Google have long become Tingyun's international customers.

However, the performance monitoring field in the international market is relatively mature and has some powerful manufacturers, such as New Relic, AppDynamics, Compuware, etc. Facing international competition, Wood is not worried at all. "I have confidence in our own R&D strength and products. We are even better than them in some technical aspects."

Wood's confidence comes from the needs of domestic users. "Domestic users will put forward various demands, but this is not the case abroad. Domestic competition is relatively fierce, so domestic users will adopt many unique deployment methods to protect themselves when deploying applications to prevent competitors from copying them. Tingyun aims to meet the various needs of users and help them monitor performance."

End-to-end service guarantee

As we all know, with the rapid development of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, mobile, and big data, the market demand for application performance management has become increasingly greater. Therefore, based on the previous monitoring of network performance, Tingyun launched a mobile App performance monitoring service - Tingyun App.

At the same time, Tingyun has always been committed to providing end-to-end solutions. In October this year, Tingyun launched the server-side performance monitoring product Tingyun Server. Tingyun Server monitors application code, relational databases, NoSQL, external services, and the server itself by implanting probes in the application server, obtaining performance data in real time and performing intelligent analysis, timely discovering application performance problems and locating performance bottlenecks, and providing a basis for performance problem diagnosis, tracking, and optimization.

Compared with Tingyun App, Tingyun Server does not require users to modify any code. Users only need to deploy Tingyun Server probes on their own application servers. Then, Tingyun Server probes will start before the user's application. During the loading of user code, monitoring code will be injected through the automatic code injection mechanism, and the performance of the application can be monitored in real time without any code modification.

Tingyun Server is deployed in the user's application server. Users are more concerned about privacy and data security. Wood said that Tingyun Server has three solutions to eliminate users' concerns. First, Tingyun has obtained many security certifications, and currently has obtained the security certification of Green Alliance. For example, it only collects performance data in the user's program code that is not related to user privacy; second, in terms of data protection, Tingyun also has strict requirements and will not disclose or share user information with other companies to protect customer data from a legal perspective; third, Tingyun Server will also protect data through obfuscation. When the probe is collected, any data information involving user privacy can be filtered according to the user's settings to ensure that the user's privacy data will not be collected.

Wood told reporters that Tingyun Server can currently be deployed through the public cloud, and a private deployment method will be launched in the future. As for the cloud deployment method, users do not have to worry. Even if two users use the same physical machine, the virtual machines they use are isolated by the cloud service provider. The probe of Tingyun Server is based on the operating system, not the physical layer, so it can be installed in an independent virtual machine and is completely isolated, and will not affect other users on the same physical machine.

In terms of probes, Tingyun Server currently supports three languages: PHP, .NET, and Java. Next year, it will also develop probes for multiple language platforms such as Python, Ruby, and Node.js. Currently, Tingyun Server is in the internal testing period and will be publicly tested in the fourth week of December. Users can apply for a free trial. Wood said that in the future, we will provide a certain free period for users to use. After the free period expires, if the user does not purchase, it will become a permanent free account, but there will be certain restrictions on resource usage. When the user's enterprise scale expands, they can choose the paid standard service. If it is a large enterprise, they can also choose the enterprise version. In terms of charging model, Tingyun Server charges according to the number of servers deployed by the user.

Future Directions

At present, Tingyun has three important product lines: Tingyun App, Tingyun Network, and Tingyun Server. From mobile clients to network layers and then to the server side, we help customers monitor and locate multi-dimensional and complex performance problems in real time, including crashes, errors, low code efficiency and quality, slow interactions, third-party API call failures, network environment errors, etc.

As for the future development direction, Wood believes that in terms of Tingyun Network, Tingyun will achieve breakthroughs in hybrid and HTML5 monitoring in the future, with more comprehensive coverage. In addition, with more and more smart devices, Tingyun will expand the user side to a wider range of aspects, and will go deeper on the server side to provide deeper problem location and fault diagnosis services. When the network, client, and server are all covered by Tingyun probes, the data from several aspects will be correlated and analyzed, and then the intelligent learning function will be introduced to provide users with more timely problem location. In addition, Wood also expects that there will be a prediction system in the future that will issue an alarm before a problem occurs, reducing the user's operation and maintenance work.

It is understood that 81 of the top 100 websites in Alexa's ranking in China are using Tingyun. In addition, companies that focus on the mobile field, such as Meilishuo, Hanting, Bitauto, Ping An, and Jumei, are also customers of Tingyun services. With the launch of Tingyun App 2.0 and Tingyun Server, it is believed that more developers who need Tingyun will be welcomed before the end of the year.