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OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native, with the application as its core, integrating
capabilities such as metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging,
and alerting
OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase Release Cadence: Work towards establishing a regular and
predictable Apache release cadence to demonstrate project stability.
2. Community Diversity: Expand and cultivate a more diverse community of
contributors from multiple organizations.
3. Complete Name Search & Trademark: Conduct the formal Podling Name Search
and finalize the transfer of the project name to the ASF.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- The community has maintained an active pace of development and
collaboration, with ongoing discussions and Pull Request reviews across the
various modules.
- We continue to welcome and onboard new potential contributors by
improving documentation and developer guides.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
This period has seen significant activity across the project, focusing on
enhancing agent capabilities, improving architecture, and expanding
platform functionality.
- Hera Agent Enhancements: Significant improvements were made to the Hera
Agent to improve data collection and performance:
- Feature: Added configuration parameter support and a dynamic sending
frequency limit to control data flow.
- Optimization: Optimized the agent channel map to prioritize IP-based
lookups for improved efficiency.
- Stability: Implemented verification for agent request body JSON format
and optimized log processing and configuration delivery logic.
- New Capabilities: Added new interfaces for agent invocation.
- Platform & Architectural Optimizations: Key enhancements to the core
platform architecture were merged:
- Scalability: Initiated "Business Decomposition" to improve the
platform's ability to scale with growing needs.
- Dynamic Configuration: Integrated Nacos configuration center to support
dynamic configuration management across the ecosystem.
- Metric & Permission Extensions: Refactored the hera_app_role table
primary key to bigint, and extended the Metric class to support server
environment IDs.
- Logging: Added log query tools and optimizations to improve log
collection logic.
- Observability Capabilities: Expanded platform-level visibility and
alerting:
- Alerting: Added new alarm strategy types and optimized parameter
filling flow for alarm rules.
- Permission Management: Enhanced member limit controls for application
permissions.
- Critical Bug Fixes: Several important fixes were merged:
- Corrected the spelling for promql.
- Fixed Redis import path errors and pipeline execution logic issues.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-03-26
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-01-13
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
The PPMC is aware of and in the process of initiating the brand and
trademark management tasks, including the necessary Podling Name Search.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [X] (ozhera) Yu Li
Comments: It's great to see a new release delivered. Look forward to
continued growth in community diversity.
- [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native, with the application as its core, integrating
capabilities such as metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging,
and alerting
OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Make more apache release.
2. Build and grow community.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
More contributors have become active and have collectively completed a
total of 16 PR submissions.
Expand our contributor base continuously, and actively cultivate and
develop future committers and PPMC members.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The primary accomplishments include the iteration of system optimization
and intelligent analysis.
1.System Stability & Performance Optimization.
Memory and Resource Management: Enhanced memory handling to prevent
out-of-memory errors; introduced inode change detection to prevent resource
leaks;
optimized resource cleanup to improve long-term operational stability.
File and Logging Management: Added file read exception retry mechanism;
increased frequency of file truncation detection and log rotation; resolved
data loss issues to ensure logging continuity.
Task Scheduling and Execution: Optimized the message-sending order in
PingTask and added server list validation to prevent startup blocking;
supports customizable collection intervals and control state export
periods.
2.Enhanced Analysis and Problem Diagnosis.
Core Feature: Implemented traceId-based root cause analysis, enabling rapid
tracing and pinpointing of issue origins.
Module Enhancement: Refactored the intelligent analysis module to improve
log processing and automated issue identification, providing stronger
support for operational decision-making.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-03-26.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-01-13
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Not yet.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as
metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting
OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Make more apache release.
2.Build and grow community.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Improve the community website and prepare to deploy the online demo in
the new environment.
Develop more committers and contributors.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1、Enhance intelligent link analysis capabilities.
2、Optimize trace data collection strategy and processing performance,
with an added degradation control switch.
3、Introduce intelligent log analysis functionality.
4、Optimize log collection across multiple dimensions, including
configuration management, distribution logic, and dedicated collection
thread pool.
5、Refactor the custom metric monitoring SDK.
6、Add business metrics support in the monitoring module.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-03-26
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-01-13
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Not yet.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as
metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting
OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Make more apache release.
2.Build and grow community.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1.Collectively discuss plans for community promotion and development.
2.Actively participate in community activities and seek development
channels for projects(Apply propsal for Community Over Asia Session 2025).
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1.Completed the first version release of apache.
2.Development of basic functions for intelligent analysis of link root
causes.
3.Expand business indicator alarm capabilities.
4.Log function iteration and optimization.
5.Clean up and correct historical error paths and information references.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-03-26
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-01-13
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Not yet.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as
metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting
OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Set up necessary resources in ASF.
2.Make the first apache release.
3.Build a diverse community.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Solved the existing problem of the website not complying with the ASF
standard.
Merged 24 PRs.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Complete the version release revision work and initiate the version
release voting process.
Completed log parsing related optimization.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
There is no apache release yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-01-13.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Not yet.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as
metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting
OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Set up necessary resources in ASF.
2.Make the first apache release.
3.Build a diverse community.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Updated the website layout and added necessary ASF website page elements.
Added a new committer.
Added a new contributor.
Merged 30 PRs.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have completed the overall cleanup of the code and started the first
release.
Complete the basic construction of the intelligent agent module.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
There is no apache release yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-01-13
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Not yet.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as
metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting
OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Set up necessary resources in ASF.
2.Make the first apache release.
3.Build a diverse community.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
Completed the initial construction of the ASF website.
Added 1 new contributor.
Merged 40+ PRs.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have completed the ASF codebase migration.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
There is no apache release yet.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Currently all committers and PPMC members are initial committers.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, mentors are helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Not yet.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Xiao
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li
Comments:
- [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera
Comments:
- [X] (ozhera) Duo Zhang
Comments: Glad to see we made progress on migrating to ASF. There are
still links which reference old stuff on github page, we should file an
infra issue to address it. I see that we already have a CI stage to
compile
the project, we'd better also introduce a stage to run tests.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: