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Cloud Monitor:What is CloudMonitor

Last Updated:May 27, 2026

CloudMonitor monitors Alibaba Cloud resources and internet applications with real-time metrics, alerts, and dashboards.

CloudMonitor is an enterprise-grade monitoring solution covering infrastructure, public network quality, and business monitoring based on events and custom metrics. It helps improve service availability and reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs.

Application groups and alert templates work across services and regions, enabling you to manage tens of thousands of instances across dozens of Alibaba Cloud services.

CloudMonitor tracks resource metrics, probes ECS instance and carrier site availability, and triggers alerts on specific thresholds — giving you full visibility into resource usage and business status.

Service architecture

Service architecture

Features

The following table describes the features of CloudMonitor.

Feature

Description

Dashboard

View monitoring data for multiple services and instances in a single customizable dashboard.

Application groups

Manage resources such as servers, databases, Server Load Balancer instances, and storage across services and regions. Group resources by business unit to centralize alert rules and monitoring data.

Host monitoring

Monitors CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics on Alibaba Cloud and non-Alibaba Cloud hosts via a plug-in. Supports alerts for all metrics.

Event monitoring

Report, query, and alert on business events. Receive notifications when anomalies or important changes occur.

Custom monitoring

Monitor custom business metrics. Report data to CloudMonitor for processing and alerting.

Site monitoring

Probes internet connectivity by simulating real user access from Alibaba Cloud data centers to your service sites.

Cloud service monitoring

Monitor Alibaba Cloud service resources in your account. View charts, set alert rules, and receive automatic notifications when thresholds are breached.

Alert service

Define alert rules with metric thresholds. When conditions are met, CloudMonitor sends notifications so you can resolve anomalies quickly.

Container monitoring

Provides cross-region, centralized, and global monitoring for Container Service for Kubernetes clusters.