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Your Camunda 7 Platform is a Black Box.
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Production-ready observability platform built by engineers who know the pain points. Stop firefighting, start monitoring intelligently.

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The Real Problems Nobody Talks About

If you've run Camunda in production, these will sound familiar

Incidents? Let Me Check 10 Screens in 5 Apps

Cockpit shows the incident. Admin shows the job log. Your APM shows the JVM crash. Your log aggregator has the stack trace. Your business owner asks "why?" You team spends 2 hours correlating data instead of fixing the issue.

REST API Doesn't Scale to Analytics

Try fetching performance data for 10 process versions over 90 days via REST. Now try it for 50 processes. Your monitoring dashboard just timed out. You need direct database access with optimized queries—but who has time to write 80+ hand-tuned SQLs?

Version Migrations Are Guesswork

"Did we change the service task timeout?" "Was this gateway parallel before?" Detailed enough visual diff tools don't exist. XML diffs are unreadable. You're deploying to production with fingers crossed, hoping nothing breaks.

Quality Gates? What Quality Gates?

Your junior developer just deployed a BPMN with no documentation, hardcoded passwords in scripts, and missing error boundaries. You found out in production. There's no automated validation preventing this.

Architecture That Makes Sense

Built by engineers who know the pain points

Stateless & Scalable

Horizontally scalable Flask workers behind any load balancer. Auto-scaling ready.

Read-Replica Ready

Zero impact on live Camunda operations. Direct all analytics to read replicas.

Enterprise Security

RBAC, JWT auth and comprehensive audit trail.

Performance Optimization

Query Optimization

  • 80+ hand-tuned SQL queries
  • Strategic index placement
  • Aggregation pushdown to DB
  • CTE-based complex analytics

Parallelization

  • ThreadPoolExecutor for I/O
  • Concurrent multi-node queries
  • Parallel JMX data collection
  • Async AI task offloading ready

Caching Strategy

  • Redis L1 cache with TTL
  • In-memory L2 fallback
  • Smart cache invalidation
  • AI analysis result caching

Performant Backend

  • Flask with psycopg2 connection pooling
  • 80+ hand-optimized PostgreSQL queries
  • JWT authentication with granular RBAC
  • Native Prometheus metrics endpoints

Lazy-Loading SPA

  • Alpine.js + Intersection Observer API
  • Tailwind CSS with dark mode support
  • bpmn-js + dmn-js for visualization
  • Chart.js + AG Grid for analytics

Observability-First

  • Structured logging (conservative + JSON)
  • Separate logs: access, security, DB, AI
  • Comprehensive audit trail
  • Datadog, Grafana, ELK stacks ready

Facing Camunda 7 End of Life?

The smart path forward isn't always immediate migration. Champa Intelligence gives you enterprise-grade observability and AI-powered insights that extend your Camunda 7 lifetime while you plan a strategic migration—not a rushed one.

Learn about your strategic options

Works Seamlessly with Camunda 7 Forks

Tested and compatible with Camunda 7 CE alternatives

Operaton

Community fork with continued development and long-term support. Drop-in replacement for Camunda 7.

✓ Fully compatible with Champa Intelligence

CIB Seven

Enterprise-focused fork with enhanced features and professional support options available.

✓ Fully compatible with Champa Intelligence

eximeeBPMS

Feature-rich fork with additional capabilities.

✓ Fully compatible with Champa Intelligence

Zero Configuration Required

Champa Intelligence has been extensively tested with all major Camunda 7 forks. All features work perfectly out-of-the-box with no special configuration:

  • Real-time cluster health monitoring
  • AI-powered root cause analysis
  • Visual BPMN diff tools
  • BPMN/DMN validation (50+ rules)
  • Performance heatmaps
  • Instance timeline detective

Open Source: Camunda Health Monitor

Looking for a free, open-source alternative? Check out the Camunda Health Monitor project — a community-driven monitoring and AI/ML analysis dashboard for Camunda 7 and forks.

Perfect For:

  • Small teams & startups
  • Development environments
  • Learning & experimentation

Features:

  • Basic health monitoring
  • Process instance tracking
  • Simple ML-based analysis

Flexible Deployment Options

From developer laptop to multi-region enterprise

Deployment Model Use Case Complexity HA Ready
Manual Deployment
Traditional server setup
Limited resources, Testing, POC Low
Docker Compose
Single-node, containerized
Small production (<20 users), Dev/Test Low
Kubernetes (Basic)
Standard deployments
Production, 20-50 users, small cluster Medium
Kubernetes (High Load)
+ Patroni + Redis Sentinel/Cluster
Enterprise heavy load production, 50+ users High

High-Availability Reference Architecture

Component HA Strategy

Flask Application
2+ replicas with HPA, load-balanced via Ingress/Service
PostgreSQL (System DB)
Patroni-managed cluster: 1 primary + 2 sync replicas, automatic failover
Redis Cache
Redis Sentinel (3-node quorum) or Redis Cluster (2+ nodes)
Camunda Database
Read-replica configuration so main Camunda DB is not affected

Resilience Features

Health Probes
Liveness: /health/ping, Readiness: /health/db
Connection Retry Logic
Exponential backoff for DB/Redis transient failures
Graceful Degradation
AI features continue with cached data if API is unreachable
Automated Backups
Persistent data storages for all key services

Enterprise-Grade Security

Follows industry-standard security and compliance practices

Authentication & Authorization

Password Security
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 with 600,000 iterations, per-user salt, brute-force protection
Granular RBAC
5 system roles + unlimited custom roles, 20+ feature-level permissions
Session Management
JWT tokens, configurable TTL, automatic expiration, concurrent session control

Audit Trail & Compliance

Comprehensive Logging
Immutable audit log, captures all security events with IP, user agent, timestamp
Data Sensitivity Analysis
Automatic PII detection, GDPR compliance reporting, risk scoring per process
Proactive Security Scanning
Credential detection, SQL injection patterns, CI/CD-ready validation API

Built for DevOps & SRE Teams

Production-ready observability and operational patterns

Structured Logging

Separated log streams for efficient filtering and analysis

access.log - HTTP requests
security.log - Auth events
database.log - Query performance
ai.log - AI analysis tracking
errors.log - Errors aggregator
cache.log - Caching logic

+ JSON-structured log for external aggregators

Prometheus Native

50+ application-level metrics via standard endpoints

camunda_active_instances 0
camunda_jvm_heap_used_mb 0
camunda_jvm_threads_current 0
health_score{process="onboarding"} 0
incident_rate{process="billing"} 0
camunda_db_active_connections 0
camunda_tasks_overdue_24h 0
camunda_dead_jobs 0
...

Health Probes

Kubernetes/Docker-native health check endpoints

GET /health/ping Liveness

App process responsive

GET /health/db Readiness

Database connectivity

GET /health/full Detailed

Comprehensive status

Code That Speaks for Itself

Engineering maturity in action

Parallel Multi-Node Collection

health.py

ThreadPoolExecutor parallelizes JMX and REST data collection across nodes.

with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=MAX_WORKERS) as executor:
    # Parallel JMX + DB queries
    jmx_future = executor.submit(collect_jmx)
    db_futures = {...}

    # Query each node concurrently
    node_futures = [
        executor.submit(fetch_node, name, url)
        for name, url in CAMUNDA_NODES.items()
    ]

    results = [f.result() for f in node_futures]

Impact: 8.7s → 2.5s (71% faster)

Multi-Layer Resilient Cache

utils/ai_cache.py

Redis L1 + in-memory L2 fallback for 99.9% uptime.

def get_cached_analysis(cache_key):
    # Try Redis first (L1)
    try:
        if redis_client:
            cached = redis_client.get(cache_key)
            if cached:
                return json.loads(cached)
    except Exception as e:
        logger.warning(f"Redis client issue: {e}")

    # Fallback to memory (L2)
    if cache_key in memory_cache:
        return memory_cache.get(cache_key)

    return None  # Cache MISS

Resilience: Continues serving cached results if Redis fails

Production-Grade Pooling

core.py

psycopg2 connection pooling prevents exhaustion under load.

from psycopg2 import pool

camunda_pool = pool.ThreadedConnectionPool(
    minconn=5,    # Always maintain 5
    maxconn=20,   # Scale up to 20
    host=CAMUNDA_DB_HOST,
    database=CAMUNDA_DB_NAME,
    connect_timeout=10
)

def get_connection():
    conn = camunda_pool.getconn()
    try:
        yield conn
    finally:
        camunda_pool.putconn(conn)

Performance: 40-60ms saved per request

Graceful Shutdown

app.py

SIGTERM/SIGINT handling for zero-downtime deployments.

import signal, atexit

def cleanup_resources():
    logger.info("Graceful shutdown...")

    if camunda_pool:
        camunda_pool.closeall()
    if redis_client:
        redis_client.close()

    logger.info("Cleanup complete")

signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM,
              lambda s, f: cleanup_resources())
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT,
              lambda s, f: cleanup_resources())
atexit.register(cleanup_resources)

K8s: Zero request drops during rolling updates

Deep Dive: Architecture Documentation

See the complete technical architecture - View Architecture Docs

Features That Solve Real Problems

Not buzzwords. Just tools that work.

Unique to Champa

BPMN Diff Tool

Compare any two BPMN versions visually. See exactly what changed—structure, attributes, layout—before deploying.

  • Visual highlighting on BPMN diagram
  • Side-by-side XML diff for changed elements
  • HTML report generation for documentation
// Use Case

"Before pushing v23 to production, I need to verify the timeout change didn't affect anything else."

+ Added: serviceTask_api_v2
~ Changed: serviceTask_api_v1
Attribute: camunda:asyncBefore false → true
// Validation Results
Security Risk: Hardcoded Credentials
Script task 'CallExternalAPI' contains potential hardcoded password
Best Practice: Missing Documentation
12 activities have no documentation
Shift-Left Quality

Automated Model Validator

50+ rules catch issues before deployment: missing names, hardcoded secrets, inefficient patterns, syntax errors.

  • JavaScript/Groovy syntax validation
  • Security scanning (credentials, SQL injection)
  • Custom ruleset configuration
AI-Powered

Intelligent Root Cause Analysis

Ask questions in natural language. Gemini AI analyzes 40+ database queries to deliver actionable insights in minutes.

  • Multi-process analysis (up to 5 processes)
  • Focus modes: incidents, performance, patterns
  • Contextual recommendations based on data trends
// AI Analysis Output

Root Cause Identified:

The spike in incidents correlates with deployment v47. The new 'ValidatePayment' service task has a 23% failure rate due to timeout (5s → should be 15s based on P95 latency).

Recommendation:

1. Increase timeout to 18s (P99 + buffer)
2. Add async continuation before task
3. Implement circuit breaker pattern

Enterprise-Ready Integration

Fits into your existing stack

Security

  • JWT authentication with RBAC
  • Comprehensive audit trail
  • API token management

Observability

  • Prometheus native metrics
  • Structured JSON logs for ELK/Splunk
  • Grafana dashboard templates

Performance

  • Optimized SQL with proper indexing
  • Parallel execution for multi-node queries
  • Connection pooling under load

Deployment

  • Docker-ready containerization
  • Kubernetes manifests included
  • Environment-based configuration

Database

  • Read-replica ready (zero impact on Camunda)
  • PostgreSQL connection pooling
  • Non-PostgreSQL Camunda? Use CDC replication (Debezium, Airbyte) to sync MSSQL/Oracle/MySQL to PostgreSQL replica—safe, efficient, minimal setup
  • Slow query detection

Integration

  • RESTful API for automation
  • Webhook support for alerts
  • Reverse proxy compatible

Modern Robust Extendable Tech Stack

Familiar technologies, no vendor lock-in

Python
Flask, psycopg2
PostgreSQL
Direct DB integration
Alpine.js
Lightweight reactivity
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first styling
bpmn.io
Diagram rendering
Gemini AI
Google GenAI
Prometheus
Native metrics
Webpack
Asset bundling

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