Network Intelligence Service (NIS) is a cloud service for network health monitoring, performance diagnostics, and traffic analysis. It uses AIOps methods such as machine learning and knowledge graphs to simplify network management and enable automated O&M for network architects and engineers.
Features and capabilities
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Monitoring and inspection |
Event center |
Proactive alerts notify you of threats so you can view affected resources and prevent business impact. |
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Inspection report |
Free basic inspections covering stability and cost optimization. Generates health reports with suggestions for handling anomalies. |
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Self-service diagnostics |
Instance diagnostics |
Analyzes instance configurations and status in real time and provides fix suggestions for anomalies. |
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Path Analysis |
Analyzes network connectivity between a source and destination, diagnoses issues from incorrect configurations, and pinpoints the location and cause of unreachable connections. |
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Networking and traffic |
Traffic analysis |
Monitors real-time and historical network traffic metrics to track application performance and workload. |
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Network topology |
Visualizes your Alibaba Cloud network architecture, verifies configurations, and provides centralized O&M for cloud network resources. |
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Infrastructure performance |
Performance Monitoring |
Displays average latencies within Alibaba Cloud and between Alibaba Cloud and the Internet, helping you select a suitable region or zone for service deployment. |
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Scenarios
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Cloud event alerting
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Detects and alerts on anomalies in Internet quality, cloud network instances, and traffic.
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Shows event levels and status to help you prioritize and track resolution progress.
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Provides actionable suggestions for alert events to accelerate troubleshooting.
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Cloud network diagnostics
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Analyzes cloud network instances, diagnoses issues, and provides results with fix suggestions.
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Analyzes cloud network reachability in real time with visualized results.
Enables self-service diagnostics and network issue analysis to improve troubleshooting efficiency.
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Network traffic analysis
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Real-time analysis: detects current network anomalies and identifies root causes.
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Historical analysis: traces past traffic to troubleshoot historical network issues.
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Business analysis: analyzes traffic across scenarios to detect errors, evaluate quality, and assess event impacts.
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Network resource topology
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Visualizes your Alibaba Cloud network architecture and the relationships between cloud network resources.
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Verifies configurations, analyzes routing topology, and checks whether reachable networks work as expected.
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Provides centralized O&M tools by resource type for viewing attributes, managing resources, and troubleshooting.
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Network performance observation
Shows average latencies between regions and ISPs to help you select a suitable region and ISP for service deployment.
Benefits
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Out-of-the-box usage
Ready to use after activation with no additional resources required.
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Intelligent analysis
Leverages a large O&M event database to analyze network issues.
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Business continuity
Collects instance status data without affecting business performance or workloads.
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Full scenario coverage
Covers all network scenarios including Internet, hybrid cloud, cross-region, and cross-VPC within the same region.
Access methods
Access and manage NIS through your Alibaba Cloud account using the following methods:
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NIS console: web-based interface for interactive network observation and analysis.
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Alibaba Cloud SDKs: supports multiple programming languages, such as Java, Go, PHP, Python, C#, and C++. SDK
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OpenAPI Explorer: retrieve and call API operations with auto-generated SDK sample code.