ApsaraMQ Copilot for RocketMQ: A Health Manager of Message Data Integration Link

This article introduces ApsaraMQ Copilot for RocketMQ, a tool that helps consumers use message queue products more efficiently and ensures the stability of business integration links.

By Wenting

Introduction

The primary concern of massage queue consumers is how to use it properly to ensure the stability of business integration links. ApsaraMQ Copilot for RocketMQ helps consumers use products more efficiently from many aspects of integrated business, such as stability, cost, and performance.

Background

Products of massage queue coordinate and decouple the interactions of various business components through the delivery of asynchronous messages. Therefore, the message integration link shows the following complexity:

1) In the message queue architecture, producers and consumers are one-to-many asynchronous communication links.

2) To ensure the integrity and real-time capability of the business, messages must be delivered to downstream business consumers in a timely and reliable manner.

3) The business logic of consumption messages may contain complex business logic and service dependencies. Problems in any link may cause message processing to be delayed. Therefore, corresponding measures need to be taken to ensure the continuity and reliability of the service.

To help consumers improve their efficiency in using RocketMQ, Alibaba Cloud Message Queue ApsaraMQ provides a set of auxiliary tools named RocketMQ Copilot. It productizes the practical experience of experts so that even inexperienced consumers are able to quickly master the correct usage of RocketMQ clients. It uses the observability tools of ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ to monitor, and efficiently troubleshoot and solve problems to restore business operations.

Benefits

ApsaraMQ Copilot for RocketMQ provides advanced inspection and diagnosis for the health of the full-link process. Thus it becomes an important tool for building efficient message integration links. This platform is designed to maintain and promote the health of message links. It comprehensively upgrades its monitoring and diagnostic capabilities through the following key operations:

1) Comprehensive Monitoring - The Copilot system focuses on evaluating the health of the entire message link and comprehensively monitors key links including producers and consumers. It detects configuration anomalies and reviews traffic normality. It ensures the timely consumption of messages and identifies abnormal behaviors during consumption.

2) Quantitative Analysis and Custom Configuration - The platform enables consumers to perform quantitative analysis and effectively identify and prioritize urgent anomalies through a refined series of metrics and risk rating systems. Meanwhile, it can track historical potential problems that may otherwise be overlooked, so as to achieve all-round management and prevention of anomalies.

3) Simplified Diagnostic Process - By providing root-cause analysis with one click, ApsaraMQ Copilot enables consumers to enter only the most basic resource information to start a comprehensive diagnostic process. The system can automatically generate detailed diagnostic reports and targeted processing recommendations, and effectively guide consumers to fix problems.

Features

ApsaraMQ Copilot for RocketMQ provides the self-service diagnostic tool and instance governance. The self-service diagnostic tool is responsible for a single diagnosis of message sending and receiving anomalies. The instance governance takes responsibility for inspecting usage abnormalities of message data links. This enhanced health inspection and diagnosis function enables ApsaraMQ Copilot to be a true health monitoring expert of message integration links for RocketMQ. It gives consumers stronger monitoring capabilities to ensure the best state of their message integration business.

Self-service Diagnostic Tool

It is designed to simplify the diagnostic process for consumers when dealing with message sending and receiving anomalies. Consumers only need to submit some basic information, such as instance ID, Topic and Consumer Group, message ID, and specific problem scenarios, to quickly start automatic analysis of causes of potential problems. This tool focuses on improving the user experience so that even consumers without profound technical background can effectively identify and solve problems.

The following introduces the main functions and scenarios of the RocketMQ self-service diagnostic tool:

• Consumption accumulation delay: Analyze the causes of message accumulation delay. The causes may be the insufficient capacity of a consumer application caused by a sudden increase in message volume, abnormalities of consumer machines, stuck data caused by abnormal sequential consumption, and an increase in the time taken by consumers to process messages.

• Messages not received: If consumers are unable to receive messages, the diagnostic tool can check for configuration errors, network issues, or other related causes.

• Message consumption duplication: If a message is consumed more than once, the tool analyzes and identifies possible causes such as system configuration errors, consumption timeouts, or anomalies.

The core advantages of the self-service diagnostic tool are its fast feedback and simple operation process. It provides a clear starting point for locating faults so that consumers can troubleshoot without delving into the details of the underlying system.

Once the diagnostic process is completed, the tool automatically provides a detailed analysis report with possible causes of the problem and recommended steps to resolve it. Such intelligent analysis significantly improves the efficiency and accuracy of solving problems.

Instance Governance

Instance governance inspects usage abnormalities of message data links and helps consumers use ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ more professionally from the aspects of stability, performance, security, and cost.

The following introduces the main inspection items and scenarios of RocketMQ instance governance:

Stability

• Message accumulation delay monitoring and alerting: Analyze the causes of message accumulation delay. The causes may be the insufficient capacity of a consumer application caused by a sudden increase in message volume, abnormalities of consumer machines, stuck data caused by abnormal sequential consumption, and an increase in the time taken by consumers to process messages.

• Message not received: If consumers are unable to receive messages, the diagnostic tool can check for configuration errors, network issues, or other related causes.

Cost

• Idle Topic: Inspect the time of the last message production and consumption of Topic, and send a reminder based on the idle time threshold configured by consumers.

• Idle Group: Check the time of the last message consumption of Group and send a reminder based on the idle time threshold configured by consumers.

Security (Phase II Launch)

• Cross-regional access point: Inspect whether consumers correctly use access points to avoid security and stability risks.

• Public Internet access securety: Inspect whether consumers correctly configure the IP address whitelist of public Internet to avoid security risks.

Getting Started

Without the threshold of the self-service diagnostic tool and instance governance, consumers can directly log on to the console of ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ.

1. Self-service troubleshooting: Enter basic information, such as instance, Topic, and Group to submit the diagnosis with one click.

2. Instance governance scores instances according to the inspection and ranks inspection events based on risks, allowing consumers to quickly fix them.

Alibaba Cloud Message Queue ApsaraMQ always evolves and expands around the three core directions of high elasticity with low cost, more stability and security, and intelligent operation-and-management free. In terms of intelligent operation-and-management free, ApsaraMQ Copilot provides a health manager of massage integration links for enterprises, enabling Message Service to enter a new era.

Welcome to the official website to learn more: https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/mq

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ApsaraMQ Copilot for RocketMQ: A Health Manager of Message Data Integration Link

Introduction

Background

Benefits

Features

Self-service Diagnostic Tool

Instance Governance

Stability

Cost

Security (Phase II Launch)

Getting Started

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