CloudMonitor Basic vs. Hybrid Cloud Monitoring
CloudMonitor Basic and Hybrid Cloud Monitoring differ in data retention, export capabilities, alerting, and monitoring scope.
The following table compares features between the two editions.
|
Feature |
CloudMonitor Basic |
Hybrid Cloud Monitoring |
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Centralized cross-account monitoring |
Not supported. |
Alibaba Cloud services only. |
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Custom data retention period |
Not supported. Default: 3 months. |
Supported. Up to 367 days. |
|
High precision monitoring |
Not supported. |
Function Compute, Tair (Redis OSS-compatible), and ApsaraDB RDS only. |
|
Data export |
Query monitoring data via API. Rate limit: 50 calls/second. Free quota: 1 million calls/month. |
Obtain the Cursor value in real time via the Cursor and BatchGet operations. Unlimited calls. Supports storage in on-premises Prometheus. |
|
Dimensions of metric data |
Identifies instances by ID (e.g., instanceid). |
|
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Aggregate queries |
Not supported. Simple queries only. |
Supported. Aggregate by tag and resource group across multiple instances. |
|
PromQL syntax |
Not supported. |
Supported. |
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Dashboard |
Single-instance dashboards for standard cloud services. |
Preset dashboard templates available. |
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Aggregate alerts |
Not supported. |
Supported via PromQL. Trigger alerts on aggregate metrics such as total CDN bandwidth, total EIP bandwidth, or OSS usage. |
|
Business monitoring |
Not supported. |
Supported via on-premises Prometheus logs, Simple Log Service logs, and custom channels. |
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Application monitoring |
Not supported. |
JVM, Spring, NGINX, Tengine, and Tomcat applications. |
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On-premises data center monitoring |
Host monitoring only. |
On-premises hardware, storage, and network monitoring via Prometheus exporters. |
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On-premises middleware monitoring |
Not supported. |
On-premises middleware including MongoDB, Redis, and RocketMQ. |
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Connection to on-premises Grafana |
Not supported. |
Direct connection via Prometheus data sources. |
|
Resource usage analysis |
Not supported. |
Comprehensive resource usage analysis. Identifies low-load, high-load, and idle resources. |