Alibaba Cloud offers monitoring and audit services such as CloudMonitor, Cloud Config, and ActionTrail to help you track EIP resource usage, detect anomalies, ensure availability, and maintain stable service operation.
Troubleshooting
Network Intelligence Service (NIS) is an intelligent self-service platform for planning, deploying, and maintaining cloud networks. It simplifies network planning and usage by offering reference data during design and helping identify and resolve network anomalies.
EIP integrates with Network Intelligence Service to support instance diagnosis and traffic path analysis.
Instance Diagnosis
Troubleshooting checks instance configuration and status, then provides intelligent repair suggestions based on detected anomalies. Diagnosis covers configuration, capacity limits, security policies, billing, and public network connectivity. You can also view historical diagnosis details.
Path Analysis
Use Path Analysis to test public network connectivity between EIP resources and other resources, and diagnose issues caused by incorrect network configurations.
CloudMonitor Basic
EIP integrates with CloudMonitor Basic at no cost for real-time monitoring of key EIP metrics.
Real-Time Monitoring Data Query
Monitor in real time the status and usage of your EIP.
Metric Threshold Alerts
Set up monitoring alerts for EIP metrics. When a metric meets alert conditions, CloudMonitor sends a notification so you can detect and address anomalies promptly.
Subscribe to Threshold Events
When a metric triggers a threshold alert, CloudMonitor sends a raw notification to your alert contacts. Subscribe to threshold events to customize alert handling:
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Noise reduction: Merge alerts within your subscription scope and apply conditional filtering to suppress redundant notifications and prevent alert storms.
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Escalation: After denoising, CloudMonitor sends alerts to contacts directly. Unresolved alerts are escalated to the next contact group after a specified period.
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Custom notifications: Define channel priorities and templates. You can also push alert data to Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS), SLS, Function Compute, or a webhook.
Health Status Monitoring
Check the Alibaba Cloud Health Dashboard to view real-time cloud resource health, check for service anomalies by region, and subscribe to RSS feeds for abnormal services to respond promptly.
Cloud Resource Configuration Audit
Cloud Config is a resource auditing service that tracks resource configuration history and performs compliance audits, enabling autonomous governance at scale and ensuring continuous compliance.
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EIP offers a free trial in Cloud Config. Because Cloud Config supports only select services, only certain resources appear in the resource inventory.
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Cloud Config provides a cross-region aggregated resource inventory for quick lookup of configuration details and change history.
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Deliver EIP configuration change history and non-compliance events to a Logstore in SLS for unified log querying and analysis.
ActionTrail
EIP integrates with ActionTrail for centralized management of operation logs. ActionTrail records user logons and resource access activities under your Alibaba Cloud account, supporting security analysis, intrusion detection, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing.
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ActionTrail records log data about your access to and use of cloud products and services through the console, OpenAPI, and developer tools.
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By default, events from the last 90 days are tracked. To retain logs longer, create a trail to deliver events to SLS or OSS.
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After delivering events to SLS or OSS, query events through the SLS or OSS console.
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Create a backfill delivery task to retrieve historical events and deliver them to SLS.
Log Service
EIP integrates with Simple Log Service (SLS). Enable the log service feature through fine-grained monitoring, which collects and processes log data such as high-precision bandwidth data from EIP and delivers it to SLS for real-time analysis and auditing.
A large amount of Internet BGP traffic flows through EIPs. Internet BGP traffic requires low network latency and high quality Internet bandwidth. If the Internet bandwidth usage of an EIP reaches 100% but the bandwidth specification is not upgraded, packet loss may occur. As a result, the client performance and user experience are severely degraded. The fine-grained monitoring feature allows you to monitor traffic that flows through an EIP and adjust the bandwidth of an EIP in a timely manner.