Alibaba Cloud DNS (DNS) - Global Traffic Manager supports traffic analytics
Mar 31 2026
Alibaba Cloud DNS (DNS)Content
Target customers: All users of Global Traffic Manager (GTM), especially those with the following requirements: 1. Enterprises with multi-region deployments: enterprises that deploy services across multiple regions in China or globally and need to monitor real-time traffic distribution and DNS resolution quality in each region. 2. Industries with high business continuity requirements: industries such as finance, e-commerce, gaming, and live streaming that need real-time visibility into DNS resolution success rates and latency to ensure optimal user experience. 3. Customers who need fine-grained traffic operations: technical teams that want to optimize load balancing policies, identify abnormal traffic, and perform capacity planning through data analytics. 4. Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud customers: customers who deploy services across multiple cloud providers or IDCs and need to evaluate the DNS resolution performance and health status of each node through traffic analytics. New features: Global Traffic Manager (GTM) introduces the traffic analysis feature, providing comprehensive resolution data monitoring and analytics capabilities to support fine-grained traffic operations. 1. Global resolution trend monitoring: displays real-time resolution volume trends for connected domain names. You can view data by hour, day, week, or month to identify traffic patterns, peaks, and anomalies. 2. Query and response analytics: provides multi-dimensional analysis including request type statistics, query type distribution, and negative response type statistics. This helps you understand DNS query distribution patterns, identify abnormal patterns, and troubleshoot negative responses. 3. Visual monitoring dashboard: displays resolution data through a visual dashboard that shows trends for each metric, enabling quick identification of performance bottlenecks. 4. Alerting and notifications: provides alert event notifications. When anomalies occur in resolution success rates, sudden QPS spikes, or address pool unavailability, the system automatically triggers alert notifications. This ensures early detection and rapid response to failures.