This topic describes the release notes for CloudMonitor and provides links to the relevant references.
December 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Metric import tasks for cloud services of third-party providers | Metric import tasks can be created for cloud services of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Tencent Cloud to import monitoring data to CloudMonitor. | 2023-12-30 | All regions | Manage metric import tasks for cloud services of third-party providers |
Export of threshold-triggered alert rules and detection logs |
| 2023-12-25 | All regions | |
Debugging of event subscription | CloudMonitor can send a test alert notification to verify the effect of event subscription. | 2023-12-20 | All regions | |
Custom notification templates | CloudMonitor provides default notification templates for each channel type. Notification templates can be customized by inserting variables. | 2023-12-18 | All regions | |
Pushing of threshold-triggered alert notifications to Microsoft Teams | Threshold-triggered alert notifications can be pushed from CloudMonitor to Microsoft Teams by using the alert callback feature. Microsoft Teams provides event processing capabilities to receive alert notifications. Alert notifications can be further pushed from Microsoft Teams to other third-party platforms. | 2023-12-15 | All regions | - |
Query of API usage | On the Resource Usage page, the API usage, the accounts that call the most API operations, and the number of requests per day can be queried. | 2023-12-10 | All regions |
November 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Export monitoring data in real time | Monitoring data can be exported in real time by calling API operations. This way, the monitoring data obtained by CloudMonitor can be stored on on-premises devices. | 2023-11-25 | All regions | |
Browser detection | The browser detection feature is available. The request and response data of accessing a specific URL on a browser in different regions and network environments can be obtained. This provides insights into the quality of the corresponding networks. | 2023-11-20 | All regions | |
Availability of the Cursor and BatchExport operations | The Cursor and BatchExport operations support the public endpoints and virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints for all regions. | 2023-11-20 | All regions |
September 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Smart threshold | CloudMonitor provides smart threshold-triggered alert rules to monitor the metrics of Alibaba Cloud resources. Threshold-triggered alert rules can automatically fit the historical metric data and display the threshold boundaries. This helps you identify anomalies such as sudden increases and decreases in metric values, and ensures business stability. | 2023-09-25 | All regions |
August 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Monitoring governance | CloudMonitor provides the monitoring governance feature to help you build a complete monitoring system. The feature allows you to evaluate your resources and configurations and provides governance solutions. You can automatically fix all issues or fix issues based on your needs. | 2023-08-30 | All regions | |
CloudMonitor agent | A new version of the CloudMonitor agent is available. The agent stability is improved and the related issues are fixed. Hosts that are not provided by Alibaba Cloud but managed by Cloud Assistant are supported. | 2023-08-30 | All regions | |
Event subscription | The event subscription feature is available. If metrics meet specific alert conditions, CloudMonitor automatically sends alert notifications to the specified alert contact groups. You can also use the event subscription feature to configure custom alert notifications. For example, you can subscribe to system events or threshold-triggered events, merge and denoise alerts, upgrade alert contact groups, specify custom alert notification methods, and push alert notifications in specific formats to destination channels. | 2023-08-21 | All regions |
July 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Site monitoring with mobile devices | Site monitoring with mobile devices is supported. To monitor your sites over cellular networks, you can configure a task that initiates simulated requests from mobile devices. | 2023-07-24 | All regions | |
Pushing of threshold-triggered alert notifications to PagerDuty | Threshold-triggered alert notifications can be pushed from CloudMonitor to PagerDuty by using the alert callback feature. PagerDuty provides event processing capabilities to receive alert notifications. Alert notifications can be further pushed from PagerDuty to other third-party platforms. | 2023-07-20 | All regions |
June 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Function Compute-based alert notification management | Alert notifications can be managed based on Function Compute. In webhook scenarios, CloudMonitor supports alert notification methods such as DingTalk, WeCom, Lark, and Slack and alert delivery methods such as Auto Scaling, Simple Log Service, and Message Service. If the existing alert notification methods and alert delivery methods cannot meet your requirements, you can use Function Compute to write code so that other tools can receive alert notifications. | 2023-06-06 | All regions |
May 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Query alert notification results | The detailed results of the alert notifications sent by webhook URLs can be queried. For example, an alert notification failed to be sent to a phone number due to an overdue payment. | 2023-05-23 | All regions | None |
New IP address database | The console can obtain and display the carrier information of the city to which an IP address belongs. | 2023-05-20 | All regions | None |
Export monitoring data in real time | After Hybrid Cloud Monitoring is activated, monitoring data can be exported in real time by calling the Cursor and BatchExport operations. Compared with the DescribeMetricList and DescribeMetricLast operations, the Cursor and BatchExport operations do not require the caller to configure the query time range or consider the data latency. The Cursor and BatchExport operations provide deduplication, can be easily called, and can respond to a large number of data requests. | 2023-05-11 | China (Shanghai), China (Hangzhou), China (Shenzhen), and Singapore |
April 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Site monitoring does not support TLS versions earlier than TLS 1.2 for the browser server | Handshake protocols that are earlier than TLS 1.2 have security vulnerabilities. Therefore, CloudMonitor does not support handshake protocols that are earlier than TLS 1.2 on the server, keeping pace with mainstream browsers. | 2023-04-07 | All regions |
January 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Alert callback test | The connectivity of an alert callback URL can be tested. | 2023-01-13 | All regions |
January 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Import and export alert templates | Alert templates can be imported and exported. A new alert template can be created based on an existing alert template. | 2022-01-29 | All regions |
October 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Alert blacklist | A blacklist policy can be configured to block alert notifications for a specified cloud service. | 2021-10-22 | All regions |
July 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Receive external alerts | A URL can be used to call the alert service in CloudMonitor. CloudMonitor can receive external alerts and send alert notifications to specified alert contact groups. | 2021-07-30 | All regions |
December 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
ACK cluster monitoring | CloudMonitor automatically collects the metrics of all the Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters that belong to your Alibaba Cloud account. ACK clusters that are deployed across multiple regions can be managed in the CloudMonitor console. | 2020-12-06 | All regions |