Frequently asked questions about the use of Intelligent Advisor.
1. What is the positioning of Intelligent Advisor?
Intelligent Advisor is an out-of-the-box risk patrol product with one-click patrol function, which can quickly identify potential risks in current cloud resources and application architecture and provide targeted solutions.
It provides users with self-service inspection and optimization suggestions on cloud resources, application architecture, business performance and security in an all-round way online, based on Alibaba Cloud's long-term customer best practices, the core basic capabilities of the TAM service system and the professional capabilities of SRE in the Alibaba ecosystem, aiming to effectively improve customer business continuity.
2. How does the Intelligent Advisor charge?
The Intelligent Advisor provides free inspection and suggestions during the public beta phase. For additional service suggestions, contact your service manager.
3. How to remove the authorization of Intelligent Advisor?
You can remove the patrol authorization of the Advisor by removing the authorization of "Aliyun Advisor Default Role" in the account - Resource Access Management - RAM role management. Advisor will stop patrolling customer cloud resources and application architecture.
4. What Alibaba Cloud products does Intelligent Advisor cover?
At present, it has covered 21 cloud products, including ECS, RDS, SLB, OSS, CDN, VPC, VPN, NAT, EIP, CBW, CEN, LIVE, YUNDISK, REDIS, DDH, etc. With the development of Advisor, more cloud products will be covered.
5. How often does the Intelligent Advisor patrol?
Different patrol items have different automatic patrol frequencies, and each patrol item will conduct regular batch patrol of cloud resource instances. In addition to RDS index recommendation and SQL optimization, the results are extracted every 3 minutes, and other patrol items are inspected every 24 hours.
6. Will the intelligent advisor patrol affect the server performance?
Cloud resource patrol is to obtain cloud resource information through OpenAPI, which will not affect the performance of client and server.
The application architecture patrol will obtain the application architecture and network information through the probe of the installation service, requiring only a minimal amount of CPU, memory, and network resources.
7.What is the data source of the intelligent advisor patrol?
Cloud resource patrol is to obtain cloud resource information through OpenAPI and requires user authorization.
The application architecture patrol is to obtain the application architecture and network information through the probe of the installation service, which requires users to perform white-screen installation.
8. Is intelligent advisor intrusive?
The cloud resource patrol involves obtaining cloud resource information through OpenAPI and is non-intrusive. The application architecture patrol uses the probe through the installation service, which is non-intrusive to the application.
9. How does intelligent advisor help customers save costs?
Intelligent Advisor identifies customers' low usage or idle cloud resources through patrol and provides optimization solutions to help customers save costs.
10. Can the diagnostic items of intelligent advisor be configured?
The user can turn on/off some diagnostic items. With the iterative development of products, more and more diagnostic items will be added in the future.
11. Patrol report download exception
The single download of patrol report is provided in PDF and Excel. If the download fails, it may be caused by browser interception, and it is necessary to allow the Advisor to pop up or redirect in the browser settings
12. Explanation of complex rules of intelligent advisor patrol
The intelligent advisor sets the time range, measurement threshold and sampling result proportion data through rule editing. The system collects the data of an instance within X days by default, with one indicator value per minute. If XX% (collection result proportion) of these indicator values is lower than XX% (measurement threshold), the corresponding scenario will be reported synchronously in the patrol report.
Taking ECS idle resource check as an example, the rule editing is shown in the figure above. By default, the system collects data for a certain instance within 7 days, one indicator value per minute. If 90% of these indicator values (sampling result proportion) are lower than 5% (measurement threshold), the corresponding scenario will be reported synchronously in the patrol report. At present, some patrols use this set of rules. With the iterative development of products, more diversified patrols will be added in the future.