CloudMonitor Basic and Hybrid Cloud Monitoring differ in data retention, export capabilities, alerting, and monitoring scope.
The following table compares features between the two editions.
|
Feature |
CloudMonitor Basic |
Hybrid Cloud Monitoring |
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Centralized cross-account monitoring |
Not supported. |
Alibaba Cloud services only. |
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Custom data retention period |
Not supported. Default: 3 months. |
Supported. Up to 367 days. |
|
High precision monitoring |
Not supported. |
Function Compute, Tair (Redis OSS-compatible), and ApsaraDB RDS only. |
|
Data export |
Query monitoring data via API. Rate limit: 50 calls/second. Free quota: 1 million calls/month. |
Obtain the Cursor value in real time via the Cursor and BatchGet operations. Unlimited calls. Supports storage in on-premises Prometheus. |
|
Dimensions of metric data |
Identifies instances by ID (e.g., instanceid). |
|
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Aggregate queries |
Not supported. Simple queries only. |
Supported. Aggregate by tag and resource group across multiple instances. |
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PromQL syntax |
Not supported. |
Supported. |
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Dashboard |
Single-instance dashboards for standard cloud services. |
Preset dashboard templates available. |
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Aggregate alerts |
Not supported. |
Supported via PromQL. Trigger alerts on aggregate metrics such as total CDN bandwidth, total EIP bandwidth, or OSS usage. |
|
Business monitoring |
Not supported. |
Supported via on-premises Prometheus logs, Simple Log Service logs, and custom channels. |
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Application monitoring |
Not supported. |
JVM, Spring, NGINX, Tengine, and Tomcat applications. |
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On-premises data center monitoring |
Host monitoring only. |
On-premises hardware, storage, and network monitoring via Prometheus exporters. |
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On-premises middleware monitoring |
Not supported. |
On-premises middleware including MongoDB, Redis, and RocketMQ. |
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Connection to on-premises Grafana |
Not supported. |
Direct connection via Prometheus data sources. |
|
Resource usage analysis |
Not supported. |
Comprehensive resource usage analysis. Identifies low-load, high-load, and idle resources. |