This article details the latest updates to the operating system console. These enhancements improve system management to support your evolving applications, resulting in better operating system performance, increased efficiency, and an improved user experience.
Background information
The operating system console supports specific versions of CentOS, Alibaba Cloud Linux, Anolis, and Ubuntu.
See the relevant documentation for applicable regions.
May 2026
Feature | Module | Description | Release date | References |
Component management | SysOM | Adds management and diagnostics for Alibaba Cloud Linux 4. | 2026-05-30 | |
System diagnosis | One-click diagnosis | 1. Adds diagnostics for critical system service exceptions. 2. Adds diagnostics for high pod load. 3. Adds one-click diagnostics for Lingjun. 4. Adds multi-dimensional GPU performance diagnostics for DLC training jobs. 5. Adds CPU load performance diagnostics for DLC training jobs. 6. Adds diagnostics for EAS job snapshot exceptions (checkpoint and restore). 7. Adds pod memory status checks and feature configuration diagnostics. | 2026-05-30 | |
Memory diagnosis | Adds huge pages analysis and Java flame graph analysis. | 2026-05-30 | ||
Scenario-based diagnosis | Adds disk usage analysis for nodes and containers, and file analysis for specific directories. | 2026-05-30 | ||
Agent monitoring | Token analysis | Adds agent token usage statistics and analysis of traces and session interruptions. | 2026-05-30 |
April 2026
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | Related documents |
GPU Performance and Diagnosis | GPU resource topology | Optimizes pod labels and enhances overall functionality. | 2026-04-30 | |
component management | configuration management | Adds an "Auto" memory pressure option for FastOOM and supports kernel-level QoS capability. | 2026-04-30 | |
OS Copilot | Enhances O&M capability with support for Skills. | 2026-04-30 |
March 2026
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | Documentation |
System health and diagnostics | System diagnostics | The memory diagnostics feature now analyzes Go application memory and system memory, and provides an optimized display for Glibc memory. | 2026-03-30 | |
Improved one-click diagnosis performance and added support for CentOS versions earlier than 7.6. | 2026-03-30 | |||
System health | Added dentry anomaly detection for memory resources. | 2026-03-30 | ||
Component management | Component management | Enhanced error code messages and improved component installation performance. | 2026-03-30 |
January 2026
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | References |
OS Copilot | intelligent agent | Adds high CPU load diagnosis, which automatically identifies and analyzes spikes in CPU utilization to pinpoint hot threads or methods. | 2026-01-30 | |
system diagnosis | Memory Panoramic Analysis | Adds output support for glibc local memory allocation to provide a more comprehensive analysis of native memory usage. | 2026-01-30 | |
System Health and Diagnosis | System Health | Adds intelligent diagnosis for abnormal alarms, using a large model to provide context-aware root cause analysis and fix suggestions. | 2026-01-30 |
December 2025
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | Related documents |
GPU performance and diagnostics | GPU resource topology | Provides two unified views of GPU clusters to view GPU resource usage and analyze
| 2025-12-31 | |
GPU diagnostics | Adds | 2025-12-31 | ||
System diagnostics | memory panoramic analysis | The | 2025-12-31 | |
OS Copilot | intelligent diagnostics | OS Copilot can now diagnose the | 2025-12-31 |
November 2025
Feature name | Feature module | Overview | Release date | References |
component management | configuration management | Adds support for displaying regular expression match information in FastOOM. | 2025-11-30 | |
Adds zombie Memcg reclaim. | 2025-11-30 | |||
system diagnosis | one-click diagnosis | Enables one-click scanning for common OS issues. | 2025-11-30 | |
memory overview | Adds Java memory diagnostic analysis to memory overview. | 2025-11-30 | ||
OOM diagnosis | Enhances OOM data collection in SysOM. | 2025-11-30 | ||
historical diagnosis | Introduces historical diagnosis to analyze past OOM events on ACS and ECI instances. | 2025-11-30 | ||
OS Copilot | Intelligent Memory Diagnosis | When you ask the intelligent assistant about a related issue, it guides you to collect information, then automatically runs memory overview, Java memory diagnosis, and OOM diagnosis to generate a diagnostic report with relevant links. | 2025-11-30 |
October 2025
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | Related documentation |
Component management | Component management | Adds support for Rocky Linux 8.8 and later. | 2025-10-30 | |
Abnormal event push | Abnormal event alert | Event content now includes k8s label information and GPU exception information. Downtime alerts now include diagnostic information. | 2025-10-30 | |
AI performance diagnosis | AI flame graph | Introduces the AI flame graph feature, enabling performance profiling for AI applications. | 2025-10-30 | |
Homepage overview | System overview | A new overview page in the console includes the following sections:
| 2025-10-30 |
August 2025
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | Documentation |
Java memory diagnostics | System diagnostics | Provides memory analysis for Java applications. It scans the memory usage of a Java process and its containing pod, detailing the memory footprint from both JVM and application-level perspectives. | 2025-08-30 | |
Pod diagnostics | System diagnostics | Adds a diagnostic mode to support memory diagnostics for pods on ACK and ACS. | 2025-08-30 | |
Process hotspot tracking | System observation | Lets you query hotspot history. | 2025-08-30 | |
Abnormal event push | Abnormal event alerts | Adds support for pushing downtime events. | 2025-08-30 |
July 2025
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | Related documentation |
FastOOM | Component management | When enabled, this feature monitors node-level memory pressure and triggers FastOOM to kill processes, preventing system slowdowns or unresponsiveness. | 2025-07-30 | |
Pod diagnosis | System diagnosis | Diagnoses pods in ACK clusters. You can specify a pod for diagnosis by its Kubernetes namespace and pod name. | 2025-07-30 | |
Alert delivery | System overview | Sends multi-channel notifications for exception events like abnormal CPU utilization, enabling rapid issue response and resolution. | 2025-07-30 | |
Memory overview | System diagnosis | Added | 2025-07-30 | |
Crash diagnosis | System diagnosis | Adds support for hardlock and hung task analysis. | 2025-07-30 | |
AI Profiling | AI Profiling | Lets you export diagnostic reports for offline viewing. | 2025-07-30 | |
Now supports Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04. |
June 2025
Feature name | Feature module | Description | Release date | Related documentation |
Abnormal health event | System overview | Added checks for | 2025-06-30 | |
Configuration management | Component management | Supports configuring FastOOM to terminate processes based on flexible configurations, preventing system slowdowns or unresponsiveness before an OOM. | 2025-06-30 | |
Canary deployment | Component management | Supports canary deployment of components in an ACK cluster by node count, percentage, or ACK node labels. | 2025-06-30 | |
Diagnosis for unmanaged instances | System diagnosis | You can use system diagnosis directly on unmanaged instances. | 2025-06-30 | |
AI observability | AI observability |
| 2025-06-30 |
March 2025
Feature name | Feature module | Overview | Release date | References |
node monitoring | system management | View metrics for network, I/O, scheduling, and memory on your nodes. | 2025-03-31 | |
AI diagnosis | AI diagnosis | Diagnose system exceptions in AI workloads and generate findings, GPU status, and AI job status. | 2025-03-26 | |
Java hotspot tracking | process hotspot tracking | Track hotspots in a Java process and collect Java stack information. | 2025-03-12 |
December 2024
Feature name | Feature module | Overview | Release date | References |
Cluster health | system overview | View the health status of multiple clusters and switch between them. | 2024-12-30 | |
Anomaly feedback | Provide feedback on anomalies to adjust the reporting frequency and baselines. | 2024-12-30 | ||
One-click IO diagnosis | system diagnosis | Diagnoses common issues such as high IO latency, IO bursts, and IO wait. | 2024-12-30 | |
Network jitter diagnosis | Analyzes network jitter caused by slow packet reception, soft interrupts, and scheduler issues, providing specific causes and recommended solutions. | 2024-12-30 | ||
System load diagnosis | Analyzes the causes and details of anomalies in the one-minute average system load (load1 metric). | 2024-12-30 | ||
Downtime diagnosis | Analyzes the causes of downtime and provides recommended fixes. | 2024-12-30 | ||
AI infra observation | system observation | AI infra observation uses dynamic injection for GPU profiling to analyze operators, scheduling, and kernel functions during AI job execution. This enables non-intrusive, highly flexible, and low-overhead observation of AI jobs. | 2024-12-30 | |
Cluster deployment | component management | Component management now supports managing ACK clusters and enables auto scaling for instances within the cluster. | 2024-12-30 | |
Unsubscribe | subscription management | You can now use the console to unsubscribe from CentOS security updates and the Alinux 2 ELS subscription. | 2024-12-30 | |
Diagnostic guidance | OS Copilot | Provides diagnostic guidance for anomalies such as OOM. | 2024-12-30 | |
Documentation links | OS Copilot answers now include documentation links. | 2024-12-30 |