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Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
May 19, 2025 · Cloud Native

How LoongCollector Transforms Log Collection with High‑Performance Pipelines

LoongCollector, the 2025 evolution of iLogtail, introduces a fully redesigned pipeline architecture, hot‑reload isolation, significant CPU and memory reductions, and advanced monitoring, delivering up to 80% higher log‑collection throughput for cloud‑native environments while ensuring seamless upgrades and multi‑region fault tolerance.

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How LoongCollector Transforms Log Collection with High‑Performance Pipelines
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
May 12, 2025 · Cloud Native

Building a Cost‑Effective, High‑Availability Global Log Collection with Alibaba Cloud SLS

This article explains how enterprises can overcome the challenges of globally collecting logs by using Alibaba Cloud's high‑performance iLogtail/LoongCollector agents, selecting optimal network paths, applying cost‑saving strategies such as CloudLens diagnostics and LZ4 compression, and configuring multi‑region dual‑write for reliable, low‑cost log delivery.

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Building a Cost‑Effective, High‑Availability Global Log Collection with Alibaba Cloud SLS
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Apr 14, 2025 · Cloud Native

How to Connect Grafana to Large Language Models with MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This guide shows how to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to build a lightweight server that links Grafana dashboards to large language models, covering MCP concepts, FastMCP setup, Python client implementation, environment preparation, and integration with Cherry Studio for seamless AI-driven data access.

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How to Connect Grafana to Large Language Models with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Apr 1, 2025 · Cloud Native

Shift Data Processing Left with SPL: Low‑Code, High‑Performance Cloud‑Native Solutions

This article explains how SPL rule consumption moves data cleaning and preprocessing to the server side, enabling low‑code, high‑performance, cloud‑native real‑time processing that reduces client complexity, latency, and bandwidth costs while integrating with services like Flink and DataWorks.

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Shift Data Processing Left with SPL: Low‑Code, High‑Performance Cloud‑Native Solutions
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Apr 1, 2025 · Cloud Native

How We Boosted Multi-line Log Collection Speed from 90 MB/s to 350 MB/s

This article details a real‑world case where massive multi‑line log volumes overwhelmed iLogtail, explains the performance bottlenecks caused by full‑line regex matching, describes the switch to prefix‑only matching and IngestProcessor, and shows how these changes lifted throughput from under 100 MB/s to over 300 MB/s while halving CPU usage.

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How We Boosted Multi-line Log Collection Speed from 90 MB/s to 350 MB/s
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Mar 24, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Achieving Full Observability for AI Inference Apps with Prometheus

This article explores the observability challenges of AI inference services, outlines a comprehensive Prometheus‑based metric collection strategy, and demonstrates practical monitoring implementations for Ray Serve, vLLM, GPU resources, and custom metrics to build stable, high‑performance inference pipelines.

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Achieving Full Observability for AI Inference Apps with Prometheus
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Mar 24, 2025 · Information Security

DeepSeek ClickHouse Leak: AI Data Risks & Cloud Native Log Service Safeguards

An exposed ClickHouse database at DeepSeek revealed over a million sensitive logs—including chats, API keys, and backend details—highlighting AI data security gaps, while Alibaba Cloud’s Log Service (SLS) offers comprehensive protection through access control, data masking, fine-grained query limits, and real‑time monitoring.

AILog ServiceObservability
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DeepSeek ClickHouse Leak: AI Data Risks & Cloud Native Log Service Safeguards
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Alibaba Cloud Observability
Mar 17, 2025 · Cloud Native

How to Master LLM Observability in Cloud‑Native Environments

This article explains the unique observability challenges of large language model (LLM) applications, outlines essential performance, cost, and safety metrics, and presents a comprehensive cloud‑native solution—including trace, metric, and log collection, domain‑specific dashboards, and step‑by‑step integration with Alibaba Cloud's Python Agent—to ensure reliable, efficient LLM deployments.

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How to Master LLM Observability in Cloud‑Native Environments