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Concepts¶

This article compiles the explanations of the core terms used across the Guance platform, covering concepts, data collection, features, deployment methods, plans, and billing, to help you quickly understand the components and feature definitions of the platform.

Basic Concepts¶

Term	Short Definition
Workspace	An independent environment in Guance for data monitoring, analysis, and collaboration. Data in different workspaces is independent of each other.
Data Source	A source that provides data to Guance, such as infrastructure.
Integration	A feature that collects monitoring data from a specific technology stack (such as Kubernetes, MySQL) through DataKit and ingests it into Guance with one click.
Tag	A key-value pair defined for data, used to classify, filter, and manage data, enabling more refined data query and analysis.

Data Collection and Processing¶

Term	Short Definition
DataKit	The unified data collector officially provided by Guance, responsible for collecting metrics, logs, traces, and other data from various environments and reporting it.
Pipeline	A feature dedicated to processing data (such as logs), providing a series of processors (such as data masking) to transform data.
DQL	Debug Query Language, a data query language developed by Guance, used to uniformly query and analyze multiple types of data in the platform, such as metrics, logs, and traces.
DataFlux Func	A function development, management, and execution platform launched by Guance. It supports writing and directly publishing code in Python, automatically generating HTTP API interfaces without requiring users to set up infrastructure such as web servers.
GuanceDB	A distributed multi-model time-series database independently developed by Guance, providing efficient storage and query for observability data, with support for schema-less design, distributed architecture, and stream computing.

Core Features¶

Term	Short Definition
Scenarios	The core module of data visualization in Guance, including multiple display forms such as Dashboards (comprehensive data monitoring views), Notes (analytical reports combining text and images), and Explorers (custom data query interfaces), supporting flexible construction of business monitoring scenarios.
Event Center	A unified event management platform that aggregates all events triggered by monitors, manually created events, and events synchronized from external systems.
Incident (Legacy)	A feature for creating and collaboratively handling Issues in workspaces that have not been upgraded to the Incident Center. After the upgrade, use the Incident Center. See Incident upgrade notes.
Incident Center	Aggregates, dispatches, collaboratively handles, and provides on-call response for incidents generated by monitoring events. See Incident Center.
Error Center	Aggregates application errors by error fingerprint to form error Issues with independent handling status. These are managed separately from Legacy Incident Issues and Incident Center incidents. See Error Center.
Unified Catalog	Centrally manages entity assets such as systems, services, and hosts and their relationships. Service assets can be viewed in the Entity List.
Infrastructure	Provides unified monitoring of infrastructure components such as hosts, containers, cloud resources, and network devices. It collects performance metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, and network in real time, and visualizes component relationships and health status through a resource topology view.
Metrics	Time-series data representing system status, including metric names, values, tags, and timestamps. Guance supports automatic collection, storage, aggregation analysis, and visualization of metrics, covering system metrics, application metrics, and business metrics.
Logs	Text records generated during system operation. Guance provides one-stop services for log collection, parsing, indexing, storage, and retrieval, supporting full-text search, field filtering, pattern analysis, and real-time monitoring.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)	Analyzes application service performance bottlenecks by collecting distributed tracing data, providing service topology mapping, API response time statistics, error rate monitoring, and code-level performance diagnosis. Supports multiple languages such as Java, Python, and Go.
Real User Monitoring (RUM)	Collects real user experience data from web, mobile apps, and mini programs, monitoring page load performance, user interaction behavior, API call quality, and frontend errors, with support for session recording and user journey analysis.
Synthetic Monitoring	Simulates user requests through globally distributed monitoring nodes to detect the availability and response performance of websites, APIs, ports, and other services, providing multi-region availability statistics, performance comparison analysis, and fault alerts.
Security Monitoring	Continuously monitors system security status, including security event log analysis, vulnerability scan result monitoring, abnormal login detection, and compliance policy checks, providing security posture assessment and risk warnings.
CI Visualization	An observability solution for continuous integration. It monitors key CI/CD pipeline metrics such as build status, execution duration, and success rate, visualizes pipeline topology and build trends, and supports root cause analysis of build failures.
Monitoring	The core capability set of the Guance platform, covering multiple dimensions such as metric monitoring, log monitoring, trace monitoring, and user experience monitoring, providing a comprehensive system observability solution on a unified platform.
Workspace Management	Resource isolation and management units in a multi-tenant environment, supporting the creation of independent workspaces with different member permissions, data collection policies, and monitoring rules, enabling project-level environment isolation and management.
Cloud Billing	A cloud resource cost management feature that aggregates billing data from multiple cloud platforms, providing resource consumption analysis, cost trend monitoring, cost allocation views, and optimization recommendations, with support for budget alerts and cost forecasting.
Agent Monitoring	Provides unified access for both Agent and LLM, correlates requests with call chains, and analyzes execution processes, token consumption, and output quality. See Agent Monitoring.
Obsy AI	The built-in AI operations assistant in Guance, providing intelligent Q&A, anomaly analysis, root cause localization, optimization recommendations, and automated report generation based on platform data, lowering the barrier to operations and improving troubleshooting efficiency.

Deployment and Usage¶

Term	Short Definition
Guance SaaS	A cloud service provided and maintained by Guance. Users can use it by registering, with no installation required.
Guance Deployment Plan	A version of Guance that users can install and run in on-premises or private cloud environments.
Client DCA	DataKit Control App, a B/S-architecture web management system used to centrally manage DataKit, view running status, and manage configuration files and Pipelines.
Mobile App	The mobile application officially released by Guance, allowing users to view monitoring dashboards and receive alert notifications on phones or tablets, keeping them informed of system status anytime, anywhere.

Plans and Billing¶

Term	Short Definition
Free Plan	A zero-cost version of Guance provided for individual users and learning purposes. It supports basic data collection and core feature experience, but has clear limitations on data retention duration, feature completeness, and technical support.
Commercial Plan	A standard paid version of Guance designed for enterprise production environments. It provides complete data collection capabilities, access to all feature modules, standard technical support, and includes data security guarantees and basic SLA protection.
Enterprise Plan	An advanced version of Guance customized for large enterprise customers. In addition to all features of the Commercial Plan, it provides value-added services such as dedicated cluster deployment, custom feature development, a dedicated Customer Success Manager, and a higher level of SLA guarantee.
Billing Center	A module in the Guance platform for centrally managing and monitoring account charges, allowing users to view plan details, data consumption, historical bills, and perform operations such as top-up and renewal.
Payment Methods	Procedures and methods for settling and paying service fees between Guance and users, including prepaid, postpaid, and contract-based settlement for enterprise customers.