Introducing the GBase Database Tool Family: GDOM Makes O&M Smarter

Published on 2024-03-04

As artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, 5G and other emerging technologies rapidly proliferate, the digital economy is thriving, leading to exponential data growth and increasingly complex business scenarios. Databases serve as the foundational support for digital economic information systems. The surge of data and complex scenarios poses new challenges to database operation and management, giving rise to GBase GDOM.

GDOM, the GBase 8a MPP Database Operation Management System, is an enterprise-grade O&M platform built by GBase specifically for GBase 8a. It provides full-lifecycle O&M assurance for GBase 8a MPP databases. Alongside visual monitoring, it leverages cluster management, host management, health checks, alerting and a host of other capabilities to reduce operational costs, boost O&M efficiency, and ensure round-the-clock cluster availability.

Three Core Advantages
Intelligent O&M All in One

Deeply Integrated Database O&M Operations

  • Visual task configuration wizard with built-in prompts and parameter checks, enabling various O&M operations on GBase 8a clusters with minimal learning effort.

  • Task management through a dedicated module, supporting progress monitoring, log viewing, retry and cancel—allowing flexible task control.

  • Covers virtually all cluster O&M operations, including cluster start/stop, node start/stop, cluster expansion, node replacement, distribution, rebalance, and other common tasks.

  • Supports multi-version cluster management, compatible with versions from 9.5.3.27 onward.

Comprehensive Monitoring and O&M Capabilities

  • Collects over 250 metrics and triggers alerts on over 130 metrics (including more than 30 cluster business metrics), with flexible metric expansion as your business grows.

  • Customizable alert policies per cluster, with configurable thresholds, alert levels, conditions, consecutive breach counts, and more.

  • Near-real-time alert generation, with alert help accessible from alert messages to assist in issue resolution.

  • Cluster and host health check functionality, supporting manual or scheduled checks with reports, covering over 30 health check items.

Clean Architecture, Great Experience

  • Functionality organized into three perspectives—cluster, host, and O&M—with detailed module segmentation, enabling one-click access to the desired function menu.

  • Modular page layout with a simple and intuitive interface.

  • Advanced front-end architecture with smooth UI controls and extensive built-in feedback mechanisms.

Six Key Features
Tackling O&M Pain Points

Core Features at a Glance

1. Cluster Management

  • Onboard 8a clusters via installation or import, then visually manage them through configuration tasks.

  • Covers essentially all 8a cluster management operations, including start/stop, scaling, node replacement, distribution, and rebalance—10 operations in total.

2. Metric Collection

  • An agent collects a batch of metrics every minute and pushes them to GDOM for alert policy evaluation.

  • Users configure alert policies for over 100 metrics per cluster, specifying thresholds, alert levels, consecutive breach counts, etc.

  • Supports in-app alerts (viewable within GDOM) and email alert notifications.

  • Supports automatic alert resolution when metrics normalize, as well as manual resolution.

  • Access alert help to understand alert details and facilitate troubleshooting.

3. Health Check

  • Customizable health check items, totaling over 30 items across 5 categories.

  • Customizable health check schedules.

  • Customizable scope—cluster or individual nodes.

  • Generate and export health check reports to quickly pinpoint cluster anomalies.

4. Dashboard Display

  • Homepage dashboard showcases various Top charts for managed clusters, enabling rapid identification of abnormal clusters.

5. Monitoring Analysis

  • Records OS-level and cluster business-level metrics for clusters and hosts, and generates analytical charts to help you understand load trends.

6. Permission Management

  • User- and role-based permission system, supporting dual-dimension control: function permissions and data permissions.

Final Thoughts

GBase 8a MPP Database Operation Management System (GDOM) is a new product developed by upgrading the technology architecture, optimizing the user interface, and refining core capabilities from the original GBase 8a unified monitoring platform. In GDOM's roadmap, we will continuously enhance alert information and gradually improve features such as runtime monitoring, parameter management, and log search for database clusters, iterating on dimensions like SQL troubleshooting, load logs, system completeness, cluster management operation completeness, and statistical report generation.

We aspire to make GDOM an intelligent, convenient, and easy-to-use database O&M tool that addresses real-world user problems in future releases, helping everyone use and manage GBase databases. We also invite you to experience the new GDOM and share your valuable feedback, so we can together build an even easier and smarter database O&M tool.