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Managed Service for Prometheus:2024

Last Updated:Feb 25, 2025

This topic describes the release notes for Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus in 2024 and provides links to the relevant references.

July

Feature

Category

Description

References

Integration Center

New feature

Self-managed Kafka clusters deployed in Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances can be monitored.

Data integration

Archival storage

New feature

The archival storage feature is provided for all types of Prometheus instances.

Automatically archive Prometheus instances

Data delivery

New feature

The external_labels field can be configured to add custom labels to metrics when data is delivered to Prometheus Remote Write endpoints.

Deliver data from a Managed Service for Prometheus instance to a self-managed one

Container monitoring

New feature

ACK Monitoring Pro Edition is released.

Container Monitoring (Pro)

Integration Center

Optimization

Default alert rules are provided for the ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ 5.0 component.

June

Feature

Category

Description

References

Archival storage

New feature

Archival storage is provided for all regions where Managed Service for Prometheus is supported.

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Integration Center

New feature

  • EMR Serverless StarRocks is supported.

  • Argo Workflows of ACK One is supported.

  • ArgoCD of ACK One is supported.

  • Elastic Desktop Service is supported.

Data integration

Integration Center

Optimization

The integration of ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL and EMR On ECS is optimized.

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May

Feature

Category

Description

References

Integration Center

Optimization

Integration Center supports the integration of multiple cloud services at one time. This meets the requirements of monitoring various cloud services.

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Metric

Optimization

Metrics about Apache Flink support custom collection.

Metrics

ECS instance monitoring

New feature

The collection of ECS instance metrics supports service discovery based on tags or IP addresses.

Configure Prometheus for ECS service discovery

ECS instance monitoring

Optimization

The stability and performance of ECS instance monitoring are optimized. Custom tags can be added to the metrics of an ECS instance.

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April

Feature

Category

Description

References

Storage

New feature

The data of a Prometheus instance can be automatically stored in Archive Storage if the storage duration ends.

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Metric

Optimization

The basic metrics about ACK clusters monitored in Managed Service for Prometheus can no longer be discarded. This prevents data missing caused by accidental discarding.

Discard metrics

Cloud service

Optimization

Cloud services need to be integrated into ARMS through Integration Center.

Monitor an Alibaba Cloud service

March

Feature

Category

Description

References

Alerting

Optimization

More built-in alert rules are provided for Lindorm.

Create an alert rule for a Prometheus instance

Integration Center

Optimization

  • HTTPS-based collection is supported for Micrometer.

  • If duplicate environment instance names exist, an error message appears. The issue is fixed.

  • Integration Center is available in Alibaba Finance Cloud.

Data integration

Service discovery

Optimization

Custom data collection supports service discovery based on tags attached to ECS instances.

Manage the service discovery rules of ECS instances

February

Feature

Category

Description

References

Integration Management

New feature

Metrics can be discarded in the Integration Management module.

Integration management

Metric

Optimization

More metrics are supported for ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL.

Metrics

Integration Center

New feature

The new Integration Center is fully launched in regions outside the Chinese mainland.

Data integration

January

Feature

Category

Description

References

Component

New feature

The new Integration Center is fully launched in the Chinese mainland.

Integrate services or components

Billing

New feature

The billing mode can be changed in the Managed Service for Prometheus console.

Billing modes

ECS instance monitoring

New feature

ECS instance monitoring supports processes.

Monitor ECS instances

Integration Management

New feature

Dashboards can be queried in the Integration Management module.

Integration management

Health inspection

Optimization

The loading speed of the health inspection list is optimized.

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