Cloud Monitor is based on years of monitoring research by Alibaba Group. It leverages the powerful data analytics capabilities of the Alibaba Cloud platform to provide features such as cloud service monitoring, site monitoring, and host monitoring to help protect your cloud products.
Ready-to-use
Cloud Monitor requires no purchase or activation. After you register an Alibaba Cloud account, the service is enabled automatically. You can log on to the Cloud Monitor console to view monitoring charts for key metrics of your cloud products and set alerts. This helps you receive timely notifications about abnormal monitoring data and take appropriate action. All operations are performed in the user interface (UI) without any coding, which makes the process simple and time-saving.
One-stop monitoring
Cloud Monitor provides comprehensive monitoring services, including cloud service monitoring, host monitoring, network availability monitoring for sites, custom monitoring, and Kubernetes container monitoring.
Improved O&M efficiency
You can use application groups in Cloud Monitor to centrally manage resources in batches across different cloud products and regions. You can also use alert templates to set alert rules for multiple resources at once. This approach is more efficient than managing single instances and resources individually, and it helps make your service monitoring more organized.
Flexible alerts
The Cloud Monitor alert service can send alert notifications by voice call, text message, and email. Alert notifications can also be pushed to specified webhooks, Message Queue (MSMQ), Function Compute, and Simple Log Service. This makes it easy to integrate alert information into your own O&M system for centralized management.
Unified monitoring experience and rich metrics
By default, Cloud Monitor provides metrics and important events for hundreds of popular cloud products. You can use Cloud Monitor to query monitoring data and system events for these products and set alerts from a single, centralized location.
Comprehensive OpenAPI and SDKs
Cloud Monitor provides a comprehensive OpenAPI and SDKs for multiple languages. This makes it easy to integrate monitoring data and alert information with your O&M platform.
Data visualization
Cloud Monitor provides a rich variety of chart formats on its dashboard. It supports full-screen display and data auto-refresh to meet your data visualization needs in various scenarios.
Monitoring data processing
You can use the dashboard in Cloud Monitor to aggregate monitoring data by time and space dimensions.