The monitoring and logging features ensure the availability of your PrivateLink resources as well as the normal operation and health of your business. You can use the corresponding monitoring features to continuously collect monitoring data. Alibaba Cloud provides various monitoring and auditing services such as CloudMonitor and ActionTrail. These services help you monitor the usage of cloud resources and business status in real time. This way, you can make quick responses after you receive alerts.
Health status monitoring
We recommend that you keep track of the health status of your Alibaba Cloud resources so that you can handle exceptions at the earliest opportunity. For more information, visit Alibaba Cloud Resource Healthiness Updates.
On the Alibaba Cloud Status page, you can view the status of the cloud services in each Alibaba Cloud region in real time. In addition, you can subscribe to RSS feeds to get notified if the status of the services that you want to monitor is abnormal.
CloudMonitor Basic
PrivateLink supports Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor Basic. You can use CloudMonitor Basic for free to monitor the metrics of cloud resources and Internet applications in real time. For more information, see Monitoring metrics of endpoints and Monitoring metrics provided for endpoint services. You can also perform the following operations by using CloudMonitor Basic:
You can configure alert rules for metrics. Alerts can be sent by using phone calls, Short Message Service (SMS) messages, emails, DingTalk chatbots, and the Alibaba Cloud app. For more information, see Create an alert rule.
You can create an alert blacklist to block alerts for a specific metric. For more information, see Manage blacklist policies.
ActionTrail
PrivateLink also supports Alibaba Cloud ActionTrail. ActionTrail allows you to manage operations logs of cloud resources in a centralized manner. The service records the user logon and resource access operations within your Alibaba Cloud account for security analysis, intrusion detection, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing.
ActionTrail can record the logs related to the access to and use of cloud services by using Alibaba Cloud Management Console, API operations, or SDKs. For more information about the supported audit events of PrivateLink, see Auditable events of PrivateLink.
By default, ActionTrail tracks and retains events from the last 90 days. If you need to retain events for a longer period of time, create a trail to deliver events to Log Service or OSS. For more information, see Getting Started.
After you create a trail to deliver events to a Log Service Logstore or an OSS bucket, you can query or analyze the events in the Log Service or OSS console. For more information, see Query events in the Simple Log Service or OSS console.