Microservices Engine (MSE) is a fully managed platform for open source microservice ecosystems. It provides registration and configuration centers (Nacos, ZooKeeper, Eureka), a cloud-native gateway (Ingress, Envoy), microservice governance (Spring Cloud, Dubbo, Sentinel) compliant with the OpenSergo service governance specification, and distributed task scheduling (XXL-JOB, ElasticJob, Spring Schedule).
Prerequisites
Familiarize yourself with these concepts:
Features
MSE includes the following modules: a microservice, microservice governance, a cloud-native gateway, distributed task scheduling. Use these modules individually or together.
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Fully managed registration and configuration centers compatible with Nacos, ZooKeeper, and Eureka, with multiple engine types and console-based O&M. Provides higher performance, SLA guarantees, built-in monitoring and alerting, and better configuration capabilities compared to self-hosted open source components. |
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Non-intrusively enhances Spring Cloud and Apache Dubbo with service governance and traffic protection, decoupling middleware from business logic. |
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Next-generation gateway compliant with Kubernetes Ingress standards. Unifies Ingress traffic gateway, microservice gateway, and security gateway in one. |
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SchedulerX, developed by Alibaba Cloud, is built on Akka and compatible with XXL-JOB, Elastic Job, Kubernetes Job, and Spring Schedule. Supports cron jobs, manual triggers, task orchestration, and distributed data processing. Provides high availability, visualization, low-latency execution, and easy O&M. |
Why MSE
MSE offers fully managed registration and configuration centers, service governance, cloud-native gateways, and distributed task scheduling. Key benefits:
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Open source enhancement |
Fully compatible with open source products and Kubernetes. Enhances performance, observability, and ease of use. |
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Fully managed service |
Fully managed clusters let you focus on business development without deploying or managing infrastructure. This service is more professional, elastic, and reliable. |
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High availability |
Built-in monitoring and O&M addresses availability pain points common in self-hosted open source middleware. |
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Non-intrusive |
Connect applications to the governance center without changing code, configurations, or images. Supports Spring Cloud, Dubbo, and polyglot applications. |
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Embrace cloud-native |
Connects applications from ACK, ACK serverless clusters, ECS, SAE, and polyglot environments to the governance center for microservice governance. |
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Visualization |
Visual interface for monitoring service availability, managing services, and configuring alerts. |
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Security |
Instances run in dedicated environments with full user isolation. |
Detailed comparisons are available in Features and Benefits.
Billing
Each MSE module is billed per managed instance. Supported billing methods:
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Subscription: Pay upfront for a specific period.
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Pay-as-you-go: Pay after use. Provision and release resources on demand.
Detailed pricing is documented under each sub-product.
Related cloud services
MSE integrates with the following Alibaba Cloud services for monitoring, logging, security, and high availability:
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Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK): Connect Spring Cloud and Dubbo applications deployed on ACK to the MSE governance center for microservice governance.
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Service Mesh (ASM): An Istio-compatible service mesh for microservice governance of polyglot applications.
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Application High Availability Service (AHAS): Provides Software as a Service (SaaS)-based high availability services — architecture visualization, change tracking, fault drills, and traffic protection — without code changes. Traffic protection is fully integrated into MSE Microservice Governance Enterprise Edition.
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Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS): Monitors distributed applications end-to-end. Quickly locate faulty or slow interfaces, reproduce call parameters, and identify system bottlenecks.
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Tracing Analysis: Full call trace restoration, request volume statistics, trace topology, and dependency analysis for diagnosing performance bottlenecks in distributed applications.
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Message Queue for Apache Kafka: Fully managed Kafka with management APIs for resource provisioning and O&M.
Activate MSE
Click Activate MSE to activate the service.
Contact us
Submit a ticket or join DingTalk group 43525005207 for support.