Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) provides multiple sub-services. To meet different requirements, each sub-service provides multiple editions, such as the Basic edition and Pro edition. This topic compares the features of each edition of Browser Monitoring.
Application Monitoring Basic Edition and Browser Monitoring Basic Edition have stopped activation, and will no longer provide technical support from March 31, 2024. For more information, see [Billing changes] Discontinuation of Application Monitoring Basic Edition and Browser Monitoring Basic Edition activation.
Browser Monitoring
Browser Monitoring monitors experience data to check the health status of web pages in the following three aspects: page loading speed (speed test), page stability (JavaScript errors), and the success rate of calls to external services (APIs). For more information about the billing of each edition, visit the ARMS pricing page.
Feature | Basic Edition | Pro Edition |
Application | ||
Displays the statistics of metrics, such as the satisfaction rate, JavaScript (JS) error rate, page speed, and success rate of API requests. | ||
Displays the Apdex-based satisfaction trend by time and page. | ||
Displays the page speed by time and page. | Note The Basic edition does not support Slow Page Session Trace(TOP20). | |
Performs end-to-end tracing based on the username or user ID. It can also be used to trace user behaviors. | ||
Displays the JS stability metrics, such as Page Ranked by Error Rate, Frequent Errors, and Error View. | Note The Basic edition does not support View Session. | |
Displays API request metrics, such as the success rate of API requests, API response time, and API response information. | ||
Displays all the API request statistics of the application for a specified period. These statistics include the success rate of API requests, average success response time, average failure response time, number of slow responses, and number of errors. | Note The Basic edition does not support View Session. | |
Supports the following two custom statistics features: SUM log and AVG log. | ||
Access logs Displays the statistics and breakdown of the manually reported SUM log and AVG log. | Note The Basic edition does not support View Session or Aggregate Dimensions. | |
Multi-dimensional analysis Allows you to view multiple types of logs based on different conditions. | ||
Dimension ️️️️️️ | ||
Page Displays the ranking of views by page. | Note The Basic edition does not support View Session. | |
Geographical location Displays the ranking of views by location. | ||
End device Displays the ranking of views in these dimensions: the operating system, device, browser, and resolution. | ||
Network Displays the ranking of views by carrier and connection type. | ||
Settings | ||
Alert management Allows you to configure alert rules based on actual conditions of the current website. | ||
Allows you to modify the settings such as automatic reporting of the API call success rate, automatic single-page application (SPA) resolution, collection of the First Meaning Paint (FMP) data of the landing page, and page resource reporting. | ||
Troubleshooting | ||
Troubleshoots application issues based on reverse data drilling. Displays the access speed of applications, JS stability, and success rate of API requests. The statistics are based on dimensions such as Chinese provinces and cities, countries and regions, operating systems, devices, browsers, resolutions, carriers, and connection types. | ||
Access log query Displays raw access logs that are reported by all agents. | ||
Open data service | ||
Open datasets Allows you to call the datasets of raw access logs. | ||
List of operations by function Allows you to query the statistical results of all Browser Monitoring datasets by calling API operations. | ||
Alert | ||
Create and manage a Browser Monitoring alert rule Allows you to configure alert rules based on the metrics of Browser Monitoring. | ||
Page views (PVs) of websites | ||
Allows you to set the limit on the PVs of frontend websites. ARMS calculates daily resource usage based on the total number of PVs of all websites so that you can limit daily usage. Different editions support different specifications. | Unlimited. You are charged on a pay-as-you-go basis. | Unlimited. You are charged on a pay-as-you-go basis. |
Retention policy for monitoring data | ||
Retention period of statistical aggregate data Displays the retention period of time series data, such as PVs and unique visitors (UVs), that is generated when you call applications to perform query and statistical operations. | 7 days | 30 days |
Retention period of detailed diagnosis data Displays the retention period of detailed data, such as call URLs and headers, that is generated when you call operations to perform query and diagnostic operations. | 7 days | 30 days |