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CUSTOMER STORY

Connected data.
More reliable digital maintenance.

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ABOUT KONE

About KONE

Headquartered in Finland, KONE provides elevators, escalators, automatic doors, maintenance and modernization services. Its people-flow solutions connect buildings with everyday urban life. At the end of 2025, KONE employed more than 60,000 people across close to 70 countries.

Elevators & escalators Industry
60,000+ Employees worldwide, end of 2025
Finland Headquarters

After integrating Guance, we had a real-time monitoring system for our digital maintenance business. … Data was fully connected between our operations and development departments.

Xu LubaoDigital Operations Engineer, KONE

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

Connect equipment state with application issues

Finding the requests, components and business impact behind an alert requires connected operating data. KONE needed an investigation path that its fragmented monitoring could not consistently provide.

01

Fragmented investigation

Engineers had to inspect performance, application behavior and logs separately, repeatedly aligning timestamps and affected objects.

02

Business-specific monitoring

Equipment and digital services have their own operating dimensions. Custom collection and alerting were needed beyond standard infrastructure metrics.

03

Searchable log evidence

Different log formats and fields needed parsing and consistent presentation so records could be related to alerts and application calls.

KEY RESULTS

30%

Expected reduction in fault investigation time

25%

Expected reduction in incident response time

20%

Expected reduction in business-log preparation hours

CUSTOMER INTERVIEW

How KONE connects fragmented operating data

Xu Lubao, Digital Operations Engineer at KONE, shares the team’s experience with Guance.

SOLUTION

KONE × Guance — Solution

01

Connect experience, traces and logs

RUM, APM and logs are brought into Guance together. Engineers can start with a user-visible issue and follow related requests, services and logs without rebuilding the context at each step.

30%

Expected reduction in fault investigation time

02

Add business collection with DataFlux Func

Programmable collection and alert scripts bring equipment and business state into monitoring, allowing investigation to continue beyond standard resource metrics.

25%

Expected reduction in incident response time

03

Turn logs into searchable business evidence

Parse formats, extract fields and present records consistently. Logs can then be investigated alongside alerts and traces to support both incident analysis and operational trends.

20%

Expected reduction in business-log preparation hours

Pipeline parses raw text into structured fields.
LOG PROCESSINGTurn raw logs into searchable business fields

BUSINESS IMPACT

A common investigation path from experience to logs

01

Shared evidence across teams

Development and operations can inspect the same requests and records, reducing repeated searches and screenshot exchanges.

02

Answers to business-specific questions

Custom scripts add equipment and service dimensions to collection, analysis and alerts.

03

Context stays with the investigation

Central collection and parsing retain the relationships between alerts, application calls and original records.

Connect the evidence behind digital maintenance

Work with Guance specialists to plan equipment-service monitoring, application tracing and business-specific collection.