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Application Monitoring (Java/PHP)

ARMS Application Monitoring is an application performance monitoring tool. It combines the industry-leading theoretical models of distributed application monitoring and tracing with the practices of Alibaba Group. This sub-service provides more comprehensive, application-oriented, and real-time monitoring services.

Application Monitoring is available in the following editions:

• Basic Edition:
  • The Basic Edition provides a 15-day free trial. For more information about the free trial, see 15-day free trial of ARMS.
  • After you activate the Basic Edition, the trial quota is unavailable and the usage of resources is unlimited. If you want to use the pay-as-you-go billing method, you can upgrade the Basic Edition to the Pro Edition.
  Note The Basic Edition does not support deduction of resource plans.
• Pro Edition: This edition has multiple enhanced features. After you activate the Pro Edition, the trial quota is unavailable and the usage of resources is unlimited. You can select the resource plan or pay-as-you-go billing method.

Feature	Basic Edition	Pro Edition
Application overview
Overview Displays the statistics of applications such as the total number of requests, average response time, and number of real-time instances. It also displays time charts such as the number of service requests and the service response time. The application overview feature allows you to view the overall performance of the applications.	✔️	✔️
Topology Automatically identifies call relationships between applications or APIs, and generates a real-time topological graph.	❌	✔️
3D topology Displays the health status of applications, services, and hosts, and displays the upstream and downstream dependencies of the applications.	❌	✔️
Application details
Overview Automatically identifies call relationships between applications or APIs, and generates a real-time topological graph.	❌	✔️
JVM monitoring Monitors heap memory metrics, non-heap memory metrics, direct buffer metrics, memory-mapped buffer metrics, garbage collection (GC) details, and the number of JVM threads.	✔️	✔️
Host monitoring Monitors host metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, load, network traffic, and network packets.	✔️	✔️
SQL analysis, NoSQL analysis, exception analysis, and error analysis Displays and analyzes SQL statements, exceptions, and errors in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API.	❌	✔️
API snapshots Displays API snapshots in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API.	✔️	✔️
API invocation
Overview Automatically identifies call relationships between applications or APIs, and generates a real-time topological graph.	❌	✔️
SQL analysis and NoSQL analysis Analyzes SQL statements in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API. This allows you to diagnose the causes of slow calls.	❌	✔️
Exception analysis Analyzes the drill-down information of exceptions in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API.	❌	✔️
Error analysis Displays the statistics of application errors and HTTP status codes.	❌	✔️
Upstream services and downstream services Displays the statistics of the APIs and their invocation performance metrics. The statistics include the number of requests, response time, and number of errors.	❌	✔️
API snapshots Displays API snapshots in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API.	✔️	✔️
Event center Manages, stores, analyzes, and displays event data that is generated by cloud services in a unified manner.	✔️	✔️
Database invocation
Overview Automatically identifies call relationships between applications and databases, and generates a real-time topological graph.	❌	✔️
SQL analysis Analyzes SQL statements in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API. This allows you to diagnose the causes of slow calls.	✔️	✔️
Exception analysis Analyzes the drill-down information of exceptions in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API.	❌	✔️
Call source Displays the APIs that are used to call databases.	✔️	✔️
API snapshots Displays API snapshots in different dimensions such as the application, instance, and API.	✔️	✔️
Other monitoring features
External calls Displays the statistics of metrics, such as the number of external requests, response time, number of errors, and HTTP status codes.	✔️	✔️
MQ monitoring Displays the status of the topic publishing and subscription of Message Queue for Apache RocketMQ.	❌	✔️
Application diagnosis
Real-time diagnostics After the real-time diagnosis feature is enabled, Application Monitoring continuously monitors the application for 5 minutes. Then, it provides reports for all trace data during this period.	❌	✔️
Exception analysis Displays the number of occurrences, name, related API, and summary of each exception in an aggregated manner.	✔️	✔️
Thread profiling Displays the thread-specific statistics of CPU time consumption and the number of threads for each type. This feature records and aggregates method stacks of threads every 5 minutes to simulate the code execution process.	❌	✔️
Application settings
Install the agent and delete applications Multiple methods to install the agent are supported. Applications can be deleted with one click.	✔️	✔️
Modify the settings of the sampling rate of invocation traces and the agent switch You can set the sampling rate of invocation traces, agent switch, thresholds, and filtering rules for invalid API invocations.	❌	✔️
Trace query
Query distributed traces and local method stacks You can query and view the distributed trace and local call method stack in different dimensions such as the call type, response time, application name, IP address, and API.	✔️	✔️
Alerts and dashboards
Create an alert You can configure alert rules based on the metrics of application monitoring.	✔️	✔️
Create an interactive dashboard You can configure interactive dashboards based on specific requirements for application monitoring.	❌	✔️
Supported agents
Support multiple third-party Java components and frameworks Supports Tomcat, Jetty, Spring Boot, Dubbo, High-Speed Service Framework (HSF), HttpClient, MySQL, Oracle, and all Alibaba Cloud middleware services.	✔️	✔️
API operations
List of operations by function You can obtain the results of application monitoring by calling the related API operations of ARMS Application Monitoring.	✔️	✔️
Retention policy for monitoring data
The retention period of metric data indicates the retention period of time series data that is generated when you call applications to perform query and statistical operations. In this case, the time series data includes transactions per second (TPS) and response time.	3 days	60 days
The retention period of tracing data indicates the retention period of detailed data that is generated when you call applications to perform query and diagnostic operations. In this case, the detailed data includes distributed call stacks.	1 day	30 days
Activation link	Activate now	Activate now

Browser Monitoring

ARMS Browser Monitoring monitors experience data to check the health status of web pages in the following three aspects: page loading speed (speed test), page stability (JavaScript errors), and the success rate of calls to external services (APIs).

Browser Monitoring is available in the following editions:

• Basic Edition:
  • The Basic Edition provides a free trial. For more information about the free trial, see 15-day free trial of ARMS.
  • After you activate the Basic Edition, the trial quota is unavailable and the usage of resources is unlimited. If you want to use the pay-as-you-go billing method, you can upgrade the Basic Edition to the Pro Edition.
  Note The Basic Edition does not support deduction of resource plans.
• Pro Edition: This edition has multiple enhanced features. After you activate the Pro Edition, the trial quota is unavailable and the usage of resources is unlimited. You can select the resource plan or pay-as-you-go billing method.

Prometheus Monitoring

Prometheus Monitoring is a managed monitoring service of ARMS. Prometheus Monitoring is compatible with the open source Prometheus ecosystem. Prometheus Monitoring monitors a wide variety of components and provides various out-of-the-box dashboards.

Prometheus Monitoring is available only in the Trial Edition. It is valid until 00:00 on the 15th day after Prometheus Monitoring is activated. During this period, 2 million custom metrics can be reported for free every day.

References

For more information about the pay-as-you-go billing method and the pricing of resource plans of ARMS on the China site (aliyun.com) and International site (alibabacloud.com), see ARMS Pricing.