Overview

Cloud Monitor gives you comprehensive oversight of your cloud products and services, providing the tools you need to ensure performance and reliability. It automatically collects key performance metrics, monitors the availability of your network, systems, and applications, and enables you to configure proactive alerts to stay ahead of potential issues. This service helps you maintain high performance and reliability across your infrastructure without needing to deploy and manage a complex monitoring setup.

Seamless Activation and Broad Compatibility

Your Cloud Monitor service activates automatically upon account registration—no extra purchase or setup is required. It seamlessly integrates with a wide range of products, including CDN, security services, cloud servers, cloud databases, and load balancers. The service also supports universal network protocols such as HTTP and ICMP to ensure continuous application availability monitoring.

Reminder: No additional configuration is needed to enable Cloud Monitoring after account registration.

Real-Time and Centralized Monitoring

Gain immediate insight into resource utilization, current performance status, and potential bottlenecks. The intuitive dashboard centralizes all monitoring data, allowing you to quickly assess the health and status of your services.

Rich Metrics and Aggregated Views

Access a wide variety of monitoring metrics, such as CDN bandwidth and request counts. The service displays statistics like maximum and minimum values within your chosen time frame. You can aggregate data sources; for example, view the combined CPU usage of all servers in a group on a single chart for an overall perspective on resource consumption.

Flexible and Proactive Alerting

Create custom alert policies based on specific metric thresholds. When a threshold is exceeded, the system immediately sends a notification through your configured channels, such as email or SMS. This ensures rapid awareness of issues, enabling quick response and resolution. You can organize recipients into contact groups so that alerts are delivered to the right people and your team’s workflow is streamlined.

Efficient Group Management

Organize your resources into logical application groups. This allows you to view monitoring data and manage alert rules for each group, significantly improving operational efficiency and configuration management.

Common Use Cases

Cloud Monitoring is vital for maintaining a scalable and reliable operational environment. Below are two primary scenarios where it delivers significant value.

Accelerate Incident Response

When system metrics cross a predefined alert threshold, the monitoring service instantly issues a notification. Your team can begin troubleshooting anomalies right away, minimizing or preventing negative impact on business operations.

Enable Capacity Planning and Scaling

Continuous tracking of critical metrics like CPU, memory, and bandwidth usage helps you identify performance trends and forecast future needs. When you receive alerts about sustained high resource utilization, you can proactively scale your infrastructure to support business growth and maintain optimal performance.

Glossary of Terms

• Monitoring Metric: A specific performance or status value collected from a monitored object (for example, CDN bandwidth, request count, CPU utilization).
• Alert Policy: A user-defined rule that specifies a threshold for a monitoring metric. When the metric meets the rule’s condition, an alert is triggered.
• Alert Object: The specific resource to which an alert policy is applied, such as a domain name, server instance, or database.
• Alert Notification: The message sent to a designated contact or group when an alert policy is triggered.
• Notification Method: The channel by which an alert notification is delivered. Supported methods include email and SMS.
• Alert Contact: An individual designated to receive alert notifications.
• Alert Group: A collection of one or more alert contacts; policies can be set to notify an entire group.
• Alert Resolution: An alert automatically resolves when its triggering condition remains false for a continuous 20-minute period. If the condition reoccurs within that window, the 20-minute timer resets and the alert remains active.