Before you can use Tracing Analysis, you must activate the service. Tracing Analysis runs based on Log Service and Resource Access Management (RAM). Therefore, you must also activate these two services and grant Tracing Analysis the permissions to read data from and write data to Log Service. This topic describes how to activate the services and grant permissions.

Prerequisites

An Alibaba Cloud account is created and has passed real-name verification.

Activate Tracing Analysis

  1. Go to the product page of Tracing Analysis. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Log In.
  2. On the page that appears, enter the username and password of your Alibaba Cloud account and click Sign in.
  3. On the product page, click Activate Now. On the buy page of Tracing Analysis, select Tracing Analysis Terms of Service and click Activate Now.
    Important You are not charged for activating Tracing Analysis. You are charged for the data that you report to Tracing Analysis.

Activate Log Service

To activate Log Service by using your Alibaba Cloud account, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the product page of Log Service. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Log In.
  2. On the page that appears, enter the username and password of your Alibaba Cloud account and click Sign in.
  3. On the product page, click Activate Now. On the page that appears, click Enable Service.
  4. On the Log Service page, select Log Service Terms of Service and click Activate Now.

Activate Resource Access Management (RAM)

  1. Go to the product page of RAM. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Log In.
  2. On the page that appears, enter the username and password of your Alibaba Cloud account and click Sign in.

  3. On the product page, click Console.

Grant Tracing Analysis the permissions to read data from and write data to Log Service

  1. Log on to the Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Tracing Analysis > Applications.
  3. On the Applications page, click the name of the application that you want to view.
  4. On the page that appears, click the Back icon icon on the top of the left-side navigation pane to go to the previous level.
  5. In the left-side navigation pane, click Overview.
  6. On the page that appears, click Authorize to grant Tracing Analysis the permissions to read data from and write data to Log Service.
  7. In the message that appears, click OK.

What to do next

After you activate the services and grant the permissions, you can use Tracing Analysis to monitor your applications. For more information, see the following topic.

Preparations