Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) consists of multiple sub-products. To meet various needs, each sub-product is available in different editions, such as Basic Edition and Expert Edition. This topic compares the features of the different Application Monitoring editions.
The Basic Edition is no longer available for activation, and beginning March 31, 2024, technical support is no longer provided for it. For more information, see [Billing changes] Discontinuation of Application Monitoring Basic Edition and Browser Monitoring Basic Edition activation.
Application Monitoring offers Basic Edition and Pro Edition. Basic Edition covers core observability: distributed tracing, JVM metrics, and host monitoring. Pro Edition adds SQL/NoSQL analysis, thread profiling, Arthas diagnostics, custom dashboards, and longer data retention. For more information about billing, visit the ARMS pricing page.
Edition overview
Basic Edition | Pro Edition | |
Time series data retention (TPS, response time) | 3 days | 90 days |
Detailed data retention (distributed call stacks) | 1 day | 30 days |
Feature comparison
In the following tables, ✓ = available, -- = not available.
Application overview
Feature | Basic | Pro |
Overview (requests, response time, instances) | ✓ | ✓ |
Topology (call relationships) | ✓ | ✓ |
Application details
Feature | Basic | Pro |
Overview (topology) | -- | ✓ |
JVM monitoring (heap, non-heap, GC, threads) | ✓ | ✓ |
-- | ✓ | |
Host monitoring (CPU, memory, disk, load, network) | ✓ | ✓ |
SQL analysis, NoSQL analysis, exception analysis, and error analysis | -- | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ |
API calls
Feature | Basic | Pro |
Overview (topology) | -- | ✓ |
-- | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ | |
✓ | ✓ | |
✓ | ✓ |
Database calls
Feature | Basic | Pro |
Overview (topology) | -- | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ | |
✓ | ✓ | |
✓ | ✓ |
External calls and MQ monitoring
Feature | Basic | Pro |
✓ | ✓ | |
MQ monitoring (ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ) | -- | ✓ |
Application diagnostics
Feature | Basic | Pro |
✓ | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ | |
✓ | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ |
Application settings
Feature | Basic | Pro |
✓ | ✓ | |
✓ | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ |
Trace query
Feature | Basic | Pro |
✓ | ✓ |
Alerts and dashboards
Feature | Basic | Pro |
✓ | ✓ | |
-- | ✓ |
Supported agents
Feature | Basic | Pro |
Support for multiple third-party Java components and frameworks (Tomcat, Jetty, Spring Boot, Dubbo, High-Speed Service Framework (HSF), HttpClient, MySQL, Oracle, and all Alibaba Cloud middleware services) | ✓ | ✓ |
API operations
Feature | Basic | Pro |
✓ | ✓ |
Data retention
Data type | Basic Edition | Pro Edition |
Time series data (TPS, response time) | 3 days | 90 days |
Detailed data (distributed call stacks) | 1 day | 30 days |