2025

Product

New Features/Description

Cloud Monitor

• Cloud Monitor 2.0 supports cross-account access to control plane component logs and audit logs of container service clusters.

• Cloud Monitor 2.0 Integration Center supports monitoring metric ingestion for Express Connect, Internet Shared Bandwidth, Elasticsearch Logstash, Global Accelerator (GA), Data Transmission Service (DTS), ApsaraDB for OceanBase, CDN, IPv6, OpenSearch, VPC peering connections, VPN Gateway, and VPN-IPsec connections.

• Cloud Monitor 2.0 Event Center launches event subscription and notification policies in canary release. This supports precise subscription and flexible notifications for various alerts and system events.

Product

New Features/Description

Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS)

Application Monitoring

• Users can manage agent versions installed on applications through the console. This meets the need for flexible control over application agent versions.

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

• Upgrades Cloud Monitor 2.0 RUM capability integration. It supports application data isolation under workspaces, adds multi-region services, and supports RUM entity association.

• Optimizes iOS compatibility with third-party SDKs (such as KSCrash and matrix).

• Optimizes Android API collection start/stop judgment, time calculation logic, and resolve trace connection failure issues.

• Optimizes PC SDK crash data collection stability.

• Optimizes web blank screen monitoring logic, improving screenshot accuracy.

Cloud Monitor

• Chinese internet user nodes cover over 800 city carriers.

  • Feature description: Simulates user access based on different network environments globally. Monitors network/application performance in real time. Intelligently diagnoses faults and pinpoints root causes. Ensures service stability and user experience. Customer value: Covers over 300 cities and 800 city carriers nationwide. Simulates real users initiating requests from the "last mile." Truly restores user access experience. Precisely locates regional faults.

• Cloud Monitor 2.0 supports cross-account access to container service clusters.

• Cloud Monitor 2.0 supports monitoring metric ingestion for Elastic IP Address, DataWorks, Elasticsearch, Network Load Balancer (NLB), Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN), ApsaraDB for ClickHouse, ApsaraDB for HBase, ApsaraDB for SelectDB, ApsaraMQ for Kafka, ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ (5.0), MaxCompute, Lindorm, AnalyticDB for MySQL, AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL, NAT Gateway, Cloud Paralleled File System (CPFS), Application Load Balancer (ALB), and PolarDB.

Simple Log Service (SLS)

SLS supports importing Azure Event Hub data. This feature pulls data from Event Hub to a specified Logstore in real time, enabling centralized storage and analysis of cross-cloud data.

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

• Optimizes single-trace topology interaction in tracing analysis. This provides a more user-friendly experience. It supports custom topology aggregation dimensions and custom default attribute values. This allows for more flexible querying of single-trace topologies.

• Tracing analysis supports more flexible aggregation dimensions from any attribute value or resource value. This allows for more flexible trace aggregation, especially in business analysis scenarios.

Cloud Monitor

• Cloud Monitor 2.0 launches Hologres Insights, providing one-stop full-stack observability for Hologres.

• Supports self-managed Kubernetes access to Cloud Monitor 2.0 (in canary release).

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

Tracing Analysis retrieval capability upgraded. It supports full-text index and query statement auto-completion, further optimizing the user experience for querying and analyzing traces.

Cloud Monitor

Cloud Monitor 2.0:

• Cloud Monitor 2.0 is officially released: It is Alibaba Cloud's newly upgraded one-stop observability platform. It seamlessly integrates logs (SLS), metrics (Cloud Monitor), and tracing analysis (ARMS) capabilities. It consolidates all your data—metrics, traces, logs, and events—into a unified view. Based on UModel modeling and observability graphs, it achieves automatic resource association and intelligent diagnosis. It provides end-to-end observability from user experience to infrastructure, widely applicable to complex scenarios such as microservices, containers, and cloud products.

• Intelligent O&M Assistant: Cloud Monitor 2.0 releases an intelligent O&M Assistant. It supports users exploring data through natural language interaction. It helps users efficiently locate and analyze issues.

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

RUM

Dynamic configuration delivery is upgraded. It adds mobile configuration visualization capability, unifies configuration delivery logic across clients, and increases flexibility in RUM SDK configuration.

Cloud Monitor

Synthetic Monitoring

• Overseas internet user nodes are launched. They simulate user access based on different network environments globally, monitor network/application performance in real time, and intelligently diagnose faults and pinpoint root causes, ensuring service stability and user experience.

Managed Service for Prometheus

• Supports ACK KubeSkoop network monitoring metric ingestion.

• Supports Object Storage Service (OSS) resource pool metric ingestion.

Cloud Monitor

• Cloud Monitor second-level monitoring supports ApsaraDB for MongoDB.

• Cloud Monitor second-level monitoring supports PolarDB.

SLS

[New Feature] SLS introduces a vector index feature that provides semantic search capabilities for large language models (LLMs).
[New Feature] SLS introduces a semantic enrichment feature that leverages LLMs' natural language processing capabilities to extract key and valid information from unstructured logs.

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

Dependent services/web-based external calls support an access path view. It displays complete external access paths and supports searching by path. This helps users quickly query corresponding downstream dependencies.

RUM

Adds a page load time metric, enriching page performance metrics.

Cloud Monitor

Managed Service for Prometheus

• Supports custom metric ingestion of Serverless App Engine (SAE).

• Supports container service cloud-native AI suite - LLM inference service metrics access.

• The new console supports data delivery.

SLS

SLS supports a scan index feature. This feature accelerates scan and compute performance, building upon the existing full-text index and field index capabilities. When you enable the scan index feature, the system builds lightweight indexes for key data fields (such as timestamps), accelerating data scan performance.

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

• The pay-as-you-go model based on observability data ingestion supports extending the storage duration for trace data. This meets the need for longer trace data retention.

• Launches a new single-trace topology graph. It provides a clearer service-level topology graph. It supports drill-down analysis within the topology graph. This meets the need for troubleshooting issues in complex traces.

RUM

• Its custom reported data pricing is adjusted, reducing usage costs by over 60%.

• The experience dashboard adds network metrics. It exposes user impact information for anomalies, enriching the richness of performance metric analysis.

• Web SDKs support stuttering data monitoring, analyzing page stuttering (long task) status.

Cloud Monitor

Managed Service for Prometheus

• Supports importing existing metric data from open-source Prometheus.

• Its Integration Center supports Cloud Monitor second-level monitoring metric ingestion.

• Optimizes built-in dashboards for ApsaraDB for ClickHouse and ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ.

Cloud Monitor

• Hybrid Cloud Monitoring storage solutions are uniformly upgraded to Managed Service for Prometheus.

SLS

SLS supports the US (Atlanta) region (region ID: us-southeast-1).

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

RUM

Uniapp application monitoring is added. It supports monitoring Uniapp compiled into native applications such as Android and iOS. It collects resource loading and anomaly issues during application runtime. This helps customers improve application experience.

Application Monitoring

Alibaba Cloud International Website (www.alibabacloud.com) launches savings plans. In the pay-as-you-go model based on observability data ingestion, select different tiers of savings plans as needed to optimize costs reasonably.

The continuous profiling feature is upgraded to continuous performance profiling. Continuous performance profiling offers more flexible data query capabilities and a more user-friendly flame graph display. It also provides AI-based intelligent analysis and interpretation capabilities.

Cloud Monitor

Managed Service for Prometheus

The Integration Center supports Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch metric ingestion.

The Integration Center supports ApsaraMQ for MQTT access.

The new data delivery feature supports Copilot. It allows users to generate PromQL queries using natural language.

Cloud Monitor

Cloud Monitor second-level monitoring now supports PolarDB-X.

ApsaraDB for Tair (compatible with Redis®) fully supports second-level monitoring.

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

The health dashboard supports resource group and application tag filtering. This helps users quickly query corresponding applications.

Managed Service for OpenTelemetry

The global application topology graph supports searching and filtering by application name and tags. This meets the need for freely filtering application nodes in the topology graph.

RUM

1. The mini-game application monitoring capability is released. It supports performance data collection capabilities such as resource request analysis and anomaly statistics for mini-game applications like Tiktok and WeChat. This meets the monitoring needs of mini-game customers.

2. Dynamic configuration delivery of mini programs is added. It supports visualization configuration for session, feature collection, and Tracing Analysis capabilities. This allows for flexible configuration of application monitoring capabilities.

3. A feature addressing stuttering issues is added to mini programs. Analyze their page stuttering, including causes, affected users, and page proportion. This enriches their performance experience improvement methods.

4. The experience dashboard adds a business user count (user.name) metric. This enriches dashboard filter conditions and meets multi-dimensional analysis needs.

Cloud Monitor

Cloud Monitor

1. Network Analysis and Monitoring launches a multi-step probing feature. Simulate multi-step user operations (such as log on -> submit order -> pay). Verify end-to-end service availability. This benchmarks against Datadog's Multistep API tests feature.

Managed Service for Prometheus

1. The new version of Managed Service for Prometheus is released in Cloud Monitor. It supports a new storage engine, a new alert engine, a new data compute engine (RecordingRule), and a new metric collector (LoongCollector).

2. The Mexico region is added.

SLS

1. SLS in the China (Hong Kong) region fully supports zone-redundant storage. All existing instances have been silently upgraded. It will no longer support creating locally redundant storage type projects. Other regions with zone-redundant conditions are being upgraded sequentially.

2. The SLS Copilot query statements of natural language generation are optimized, improving accuracy. It also supports generating query statements combined with SQL.

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

1. Launches a new business trace analysis feature. Simply configure it to get full application performance monitoring and trace analysis from a business perspective.

2. The global application topology graph adds service nodes of the message queue type, further improving the completeness of the topology graph.

Managed Service for OpenTelemetry

1. Compatible with Grafana Tempo component. Use native Grafana Tempo component to query and analyze trace data.

2. Supports filtering custom HTTP status codes to ignore them in error statistics. This meets the need for custom management of error statistics.

3. Alert rules for HTTP status code anomaly types support filtering or excluding specific HTTP status codes. This meets the need for fine-grained alert management.

RUM

1. Anomaly issues are upgraded to support resolution status, priority, and tag configuration. This helps customers manage anomaly issues and compare data.

2. The anomaly issue details-associated session panel is optimized, simplifying the operation path.

3. Resource requests support domain name filtering. This meets the need for flexibly querying data.

Cloud Monitor

Managed Service for Prometheus

1. Container Monitoring Pro supports ACK LINGJUN clusters, providing more advanced monitoring capabilities.

2. The Managed Service for Prometheus agent supports global parameter visualization configuration, improving the configuration experience.

3. It supports self-managed JuiceFS component monitoring access.

4. It supports Cloud Monitor second-level monitoring access.

5. It supports Cloud Firewall metric ingestion.

6. Optimizes PAI-DLC, PAI-DSW, and PAI-Quota monitoring access. It supports more custom tags and more tag enrichment such as QuotaName.

SLS

The project recycle bin is added. Projects with the recycle bin enabled enter a silent, read-only state after deletion. Recover them within 7 days. This avoids accidental deletion issues due to various reasons.

The exclusive SQL full precision mode is launched for large-scale data and scenarios with low tolerance for analysis result errors. It ensures zero error in analysis results. This meets demands for scenarios such as financial analysis and business analysis.

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

1. The tracing analysis page supports a trace list. It provides search results focused on the trace dimension, improving the search result display experience.

2. Connection pool monitoring in the new console adds a maximum connections metric panel, continuously enriching the monitoring panel richness.

RUM

1. Dynamic configuration delivery is added to web applications. It supports visualization configuration for session, feature collection, and tracing analysis configuration items. This increases flexibility in web SDK configuration.

2. Custom log exposure is added to the console to flexibly analyze custom reported log data.

Cloud Monitor

Managed Service for Prometheus

1. Supports Realtime Compute for Apache Flink and self-managed Flink monitoring metric ingestion.

2. Supports cloud-native API Gateway monitoring metric ingestion.

3. Supports PAI-EAS advanced monitoring metric ingestion.

4. Its usage statistics feature is optimized. It supports a unified display of reported volume and ingested volume.

SLS

The LoongCollector agent is released. LoongCollector inherits Logtail's log collection and processing capabilities. Its functionality will gradually expand from a single log scenario to a unified entity for observability data collection, local computing, and service discovery. Supported region: China (Heyuan).

Product

New Features/Description

ARMS

ARMS Application Monitoring

1. Optimizes the agent management page. It supports fuzzy query, quick dropdown, and other convenient operations for multiple filter fields such as agent environment, version, and instance IP.

2. Launches Problem Insights, a new generation of intelligent insight feature for root cause analysis based on LLMs. It supports real-time self-inspection and anomaly alert event analysis. It provides comprehensive root cause analysis, alert convergence, and impact scope analysis capabilities. Free during public preview.

Cloud Monitor

Managed Service for Prometheus

1. Supports ApsaraMQ for Confluent monitoring metric ingestion.

2. Supports Elastic Block Storage (EBS) monitoring metric ingestion.

3. Supports integration of advanced metrics of Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch.

4. Upgrades the archive storage capability. It supports custom storage duration. Instances billed by metric sample count also support archive storage configuration.

5. Optimizes the integrated environments list page to display the Prometheus instance for each environment.

SLS

Its Ingest Processor supports processing ingested data of the cloud product log type.