Aviz Networks ONES 3.1 expands SONiC monitoring and Rule Engine alerts

Aviz Networks’ ONES 3.1 release adds monitoring and alerting improvements for SONiC environments, including new system health views, Docker container transition tracking, automatic management-IP rediscovery, and additional Rule Engine alert metrics for CPU, container state, device failures, and IP changes.

Research Overview

The vendor describes ONES 3.1 as an update focused on SONiC network monitoring and troubleshooting, with changes aimed at faster diagnosis and reduced manual steps when network devices or their underlying components change state.

The article highlights enhancements across system health monitoring, CPU-focused reporting, container and device health visibility, and management-IP lifecycle handling through rediscovery and rule-based alerts.

Key Findings

ONES 3.1 adds detailed reporting on the top 10 CPU-consuming services on a host, including their memory usage, to help operators identify high-usage processes such as redis-server, agent, syncd, and dockerd.

The release also introduces real-time failure detection for unhealthy hardware and software elements, presenting devices marked unhealthy with failure details in the user interface and surfacing notifications in a topology view and a health summary page.

Technical Breakdown

For SONiC operations, the article states that ONES 3.1 includes a widget that visually highlights Docker container state transitions, addressing prior difficulty tracking changes such as “up” to “down.” The widget provides a “Connect” button for direct SSH access to the switch and includes a timeframe selector to view state changes over a chosen period.

On management connectivity, ONES 3.1 introduces an automatic rediscovery mechanism intended to detect when a monitored device’s management IP changes and then re-register the switch with the controller, removing manual updates described as time-consuming. The release also includes an IP Transition Widget to track management IP changes over a period and generate alerts through the Rule Engine when management IP transitions occur.

Operational Impact

The vendor positions the update as addressing operational gaps in identifying CPU-heavy processes, correlating container state changes to service disruptions, and reacting to management-IP changes that can otherwise lead to communication breakdowns.

The additional Rule Engine metrics described in the article expand alert coverage for Docker CPU and memory utilization, Docker down status, unhealthy devices, and IP transition monitoring.

Blog Signals brief is a fact-based summary of the vendor blog, focusing on ONES 3.1 features for SONiC monitoring: system health reporting, top CPU service visibility, real-time unhealthy-device detection, Docker container transition widgets with SSH access, automatic management-IP rediscovery and IP history, and expanded Rule Engine alerts for CPU, container state, device failures, and IP transitions.