This topic describes the release notes for Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) in 2025 and provides links to the relevant references.
November
Sub-service | Feature | Category |
Application Monitoring | New feature | Lets users manage application agent versions in the console. This provides flexible control over agent versions. |
Real User Monitoring (RUM) | Upgrade | Upgrades Cloud Monitor 2.0 RUM capabilities. It supports application data isolation within workspaces, adds multi-region services, and supports RUM entity association. |
Optimization | Optimizes iOS compatibility with third-party SDKs (such as KSCrash and Matrix). | |
Optimization | Optimizes Android API collection start/stop judgment and time calculation logic. It also addresses issues where end-to-end tracing does not take effect. | |
Optimization | Optimizes PC SDK crash data collection stability. | |
Optimization | Optimizes web blank screen monitoring logic and enhances screenshot accuracy. |
October
Sub-service | Feature | Category |
Application Monitoring | Optimization | Optimizes the interaction for single-trace topology in trace analysis. It provides a more user-friendly experience and supports custom topology aggregation dimensions and default displayed property values. This lets users query single-trace topologies more flexibly. |
Optimization | Trace analysis supports more flexible aggregation dimensions. It allows aggregation from any property value or resource value. This lets users perform trace aggregation more flexibly, especially in business analysis scenarios. |
September
Sub-service | Feature | Category |
Application Monitoring | Optimization | Upgrades trace analysis retrieval capabilities. It supports full-text search and auto fill of query statements, further optimizing the user experience for querying and analyzing traces. |
August
Sub-service | Feature | Category |
RUM | Upgrade | Dynamic configuration delivery now includes mobile blank screen configuration. This unifies configuration delivery logic across all clients, enhancing customers' flexible configuration of RUM SDK capabilities. |
July
Sub-service | Feature | Category |
Application Monitoring | Optimization | Adds access path view support in dependency services/web-based external calls. It displays complete external access paths and supports searching by path, letting users quickly query corresponding downstream dependencies. |
RUM | New | Supports instant page load rate metrics, enriching page performance metrics. |
June
Sub-service | Feature | Category | Description | Reference |
Application Monitoring | Billing | New feature | Trace data storage periods are extendable under the billing model of remote-write observability data volume, enabling longer retention compliance. | |
RUM | Dashboard | Optimization | Network metrics are incorporated into the Experience Dashboard. Exception-affected user data is now displayed for enriched performance analysis. | |
Billing | Optimization | Pricing for custom RUM metric sample count is reduced by more than 60%. | [Billing updates] Update in the RUM OCU conversion rate for custom reporting |
May
Sub-service | Feature | Category | Description | Reference |
Application Monitoring | Savings plan | New feature | Savings plans are available on the international site (alibabacloud.com). Under the billing model of remote-write observability data volume, you can select different savings plan tiers as needed for cost optimization. | |
Managed Service for Prometheus | Integration Center | New feature | The Integration Center supports integration with Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch and ApsaraMQ for MQTT. |
April
Sub-service | Feature | Category | Description | Reference |
Application Monitoring | Health dashboard | Optimization | The health dashboard supports filtering by resource groups and application tags to enable quick application queries. | |
Managed Service for OpenTelemetry | Global topology | Optimization | The global topology map allows search and filtering through application names or tags for flexible node selection. | |
RUM | Minigame monitoring | New feature | The performance data of Douyin and WeChat minigames, including resource requests and anomaly statistics, can be collected. | |
Mini program monitoring | New feature | Visual configuration capabilities are provided for session settings, feature toggles, and tracing in mini programs. | ||
Mini program monitoring | New feature | Mini program monitoring supports analyzing causes of lag in mini program pages and tracking affected users, page ratios, and related metrics. | ||
Managed Service for Prometheus | New region | New feature | Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in the Mexico region. |
March
Sub-service | Feature | Category | Description | Reference |
Application Monitoring | Business trace analysis | New feature | The business trace analysis feature is newly released, enabling full-scale application performance monitoring and trace analysis at business level through simple configuration. | |
Application topology | Optimization | Message queue service nodes are added to the global application topology map to enhance diagram completeness. | ||
Trace Explorer | New feature | Trace Explorer is now compatible with Grafana Tempo, allowing native Tempo components to query and analyze trace data. | ||
Managed Service for OpenTelemetry | Trace Explorer | Optimization | Custom HTTP status codes can be filtered to meet personalized error statistics management requirements. | |
Alerting | Optimization | Alert rules for HTTP status code exceptions are enhanced with specific code filtering capabilities for refined alert management. | ||
Managed Service for Prometheus | Integration center | New feature | ACK Lingjun clusters are now supported in Container Monitoring Pro Edition for advanced monitoring. | |
Integration center | New feature | Global parameter configuration for the Prometheus agent is enabled through visual interface to streamline operations. | N/A | |
Integration center | New feature | Cloud Firewall metrics are supported. | ||
Archival storage | Optimization | PAI-DLC, PAI-DSW, and PAI-Quota monitoring integrations are optimized with enriched custom tags including QuotaName. |
February
Sub-service | Feature | Category | Description | Reference |
Application Monitoring | Trace Explorer | Optimization | The Trace Explorer page supports search results by trace. | |
Connection pool monitoring | Optimization | The dashboard containing the maximum number of connections is added to the new console for connection pool monitoring. | ||
RUM | Custom log reporting and analysis | New feature | Custom logs can be reported from both mobile and PC apps, and the log data can be analyzed in the console. | |
Managed Service for Prometheus | Integration center | New feature | Managed Service for Prometheus supports ingesting metrics from Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache Flink and self-managed Apache Flink. | |
Integration center | New feature | Managed Service for Prometheus supports ingesting metrics from Cloud-native API Gateway. | ||
Integration center | New feature | Managed Service for Prometheus supports ingesting advanced metrics from Elastic Algorithm Service (EAS) for Platform of Artificial Intelligence (PAI). | ||
Archival storage | Optimization | Usage statistics are optimized to display both metric sample count and remote-write data volume. |
January
Sub-service | Feature | Category | Description | Reference |
Application Monitoring | Agent management | Optimization | The Agent Management page is optimized to support fuzzy query and drop-down for filtering fields like the agent environment, version, and instance IP address. | |
Managed Service for Prometheus | Integration center | New feature | Managed Service for Prometheus supports ingesting metrics from ApsaraMQ for Confluent instances. | |
Integration center | New feature | Managed Service for Prometheus supports ingesting metrics from Elastic Block Storage (EBS) disks. | ||
Integration center | Optimization | Managed Service for Prometheus supports ingesting advanced metrics from Elasticsearch instances. | ||
Archival storage | Optimization | The archival storage capability is upgraded to support custom storage durations, and becomes available for instances billed by metric sample count. | ||
Integration management | Optimization | The Integrated Environments tab of the Integration Management page can display the Managed Service for Prometheus instances corresponding to the environment. |