The domestic APM industry is booming: Is OneAPM+Bonree really equivalent to Tingyun?

The hot listing of NewRelic has triggered a frenzy in the domestic APM field. There are more and more players in the Chinese APM market. It is speculated that due to the booming development of the Internet industry, practitioners are paying more and more attention to the impact of performance on their business. The market value of China's APM market can exceed 10 billion, and it has just entered the early stage of market development. Recently, a piece of news "OneAPM and Bonree Strategic Cooperation: Creating APM One-Stop Solution" also caught the author's attention.

According to the author's understanding, this cooperation should be a cooperation to supplement the APM product line. To put it bluntly, OneAPM lacks a network-based monitoring solution, and Bonree previously only provided network monitoring services and wanted to transform into the APM market. Neither party can provide a truly complete end-to-end APM solution as defined by Gartner (http://www.infoq.com/articles/jonah-application-performance-management), and achieving true end-to-end APM is not achieved overnight, and it takes time to accumulate products and research and development. Can this cross-company product line combination really bring customers a complete end-to-end application performance management solution? It seems possible, but it may not be the case. Let's take a look at the APM service providers that truly meet Gartner's definition.

Taking the foreign APM giant NewRelic and the domestic APM leader Tingyun as examples, both vendors provide complete end-to-end application performance management services, including mobile client performance monitoring, server performance monitoring, and Synthetics for network monitoring, which can detect performance issues from the client to the server and then to the network level. Among them, Tingyun also provides slow interaction monitoring function for mobile clients, and provides NoSQL monitoring on the server side, which are insurmountable technical barriers.

Complain → Discover → Troubleshoot → Locate → Solve, which is the general process for solving performance problems. With the rapid development of the Internet and mobile Internet, in order to achieve business agility, it is almost impossible for DevOps to use multiple APM products across platforms to solve the same performance problem in steps. This is superfluous. Using the same complete end-to-end APM solution is the most basic guarantee for improving R&D and operation and maintenance iteration capabilities. This is the most important issue that arises in the strategic cooperation between the two parties, unless one company swallows the other to achieve seamless integration of products and technologies. For Tingyun and NewRelic, the complete end-to-end APM solution provided does not need to consider the issue of cross-platform scheduling and monitoring.

It can be said that the cooperation between different types of application performance monitoring platforms in China is a good thing, which is helpful for the education of the entire APM market in China, and helps to complete their respective product lines and enhance the comprehensive service capabilities of APM. For domestic end-to-end application performance management platforms like Tingyun, they should continue to work hard to improve their product and technical capabilities, provide better services to users, and catch up with the world's top APM manufacturers such as NewRelic, Appdynamics, Compuware, etc.

Change: What should the future of APM look like?

Mobility: Mobility promotes the development of business-centric R&D and operation and maintenance ideas, and also gives rise to the transformation of the Internet to mobile Internet. Traditional Internet companies prefer performance monitoring of the application operating environment, while mobile Internet needs to pay more attention to real performance monitoring from the perspective of user experience. This makes truly end-to-end APM products represented by Tingyun the future.

SaaS: According to the 2014 Application Performance Monitoring Magic Quadrant released by Gartner, SaaS will become the main delivery method for APM in the future. It has excellent characteristics such as scalability and fast delivery.

Cloud + APM model: Cloud + APM is a solution proposed by AWS in practice. New Relic even proposed the slogan "Don't trust cloud without New Relic". In China, Tingyun took the lead in cooperating with AWS to launch the domestic cloud + APM model.

Big data: The future APM should be to monitor performance issues from the perspective of real users with intelligent data services (iDaaS: intelligence data as a service) and present them visually. At present, domestic APM manufacturers have taken the lead in launching iDaaS services. Interested friends can take a look at: http://bbs.tingyun.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=45

From this point of view, the popularity of APM is a good thing, but domestic manufacturers should also pay attention to their own product line research and development and coverage. After all, improving their own product service level is the cornerstone of cooperation.