ARMS Application Monitoring is available in Basic Edition and Pro Edition, each with different features and data retention periods.
The Basic Edition is no longer available for activation, and beginning March 31, 2024, technical support is no longer provided for it. For more information, see [Billing changes] Discontinuation of Application Monitoring Basic Edition and Browser Monitoring Basic Edition activation.
Application Monitoring offers Basic Edition and Pro Edition. Basic Edition covers core observability: distributed tracing, JVM metrics, and host monitoring. Pro Edition adds SQL/NoSQL analysis, thread profiling, Arthas diagnostics, custom dashboards, and longer data retention. For more information about billing, visit the ARMS pricing page.
Edition overview
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|
Basic Edition |
Pro Edition |
|
Time series data retention (TPS, response time) |
3 days |
90 days |
|
Detailed data retention (distributed call stacks) |
1 day |
30 days |
Feature comparison
In the following tables, ✓ = available, -- = not available.
Application overview
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
Overview (requests, response time, instances) |
✓ |
✓ |
|
Topology (call relationships) |
✓ |
✓ |
Application details
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
Overview (topology) |
-- |
✓ |
|
JVM monitoring (heap, non-heap, GC, threads) |
✓ |
✓ |
|
-- |
✓ |
|
|
Host monitoring (CPU, memory, disk, load, network) |
✓ |
✓ |
|
SQL analysis, NoSQL analysis, exception analysis, and error analysis |
-- |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
API calls
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
Overview (topology) |
-- |
✓ |
|
-- |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
Database calls
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
Overview (topology) |
-- |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
External calls and MQ monitoring
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
MQ monitoring (ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ) |
-- |
✓ |
Application diagnostics
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
Application settings
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
Trace query
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
✓ |
✓ |
Alerts and dashboards
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
-- |
✓ |
Supported agents
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
Support for multiple third-party Java components and frameworks (Tomcat, Jetty, Spring Boot, Dubbo, High-Speed Service Framework (HSF), HttpClient, MySQL, Oracle, and all Alibaba Cloud middleware services) |
✓ |
✓ |
API operations
|
Feature |
Basic |
Pro |
|
✓ |
✓ |
Data retention
|
Data type |
Basic Edition |
Pro Edition |
|
Time series data (TPS, response time) |
3 days |
90 days |
|
Detailed data (distributed call stacks) |
1 day |
30 days |