Directory Observability & MonitoringAPM & Distributed TracingAlibaba Cloud Application Real-Time Service

Alibaba Cloud Application Real-Time Service

About Alibaba Cloud Application Real-Time Service

Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) is a one-stop application performance monitoring platform. ARMS includes sub-services such as Real User Monitoring (RUM), Application Monitoring, and Managed Service for OpenTelemetry. It covers terminal applications such as web, HTML5, mini programs, PC, mobile apps, and server-side applications developed in Java, Go, and Python. It includes AI-driven alert convergence, fault insight, and impact analysis based on large language models. ARMS supports industry open standards like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus for unified management of observability data.

Products

Application Security: Protects applications from security threats using Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) technology.
Managed Service for OpenTelemetry: Supports integration through open-source OpenTelemetry Agent/SDK, Jaeger SDK/Agent, Zipkin, and SkyWalking clients.

Used for

Tracing end-to-end requests between front-end and back-end services
Identifying bottlenecks in Java programs caused by CPU, memory, and I/O issues
Analyzing page access, resource loading, API request calls, and JS errors for browser and mobile HTML5 pages
Performing threshold periodic inspections on application performance metrics such as Response Time, Error Count, and Queries Per Second
Diagnosing bottlenecks in Go applications caused by CPU, memory, and I/O issues

Who it is for

Developers working with Java, Go, and Python applications.
Developers working with .NET, Node.js, PHP, and C++ applications.
Teams building mobile apps such as iOS and Android apps, web applications, and mini programs.

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How to evaluate APM & Distributed Tracing

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22%

Telemetry Coverage & Correlation

Unified metrics, traces, logs, real-user monitoring, synthetics, and continuous profiling; automatic correlation across signals; service maps and topology; Kubernetes, container, serverless, and cloud-provider auto-discovery; breadth and quality of the integration catalog

22%

Cost Control, Cardinality & Data Governance

Pricing-unit transparency and overage terms; high-cardinality handling without runaway cost; ingest-time filtering, sampling, aggregation, and tiered retention; a native or compatible telemetry pipeline; per-team budgets, quotas, and chargeback visibility so spend is governable, not just observable

20%

Distributed Tracing & APM Depth

End-to-end trace correlation across services and async boundaries, tail-based and adaptive sampling, code-level and method-level profiling, error tracking and exception grouping, database and dependency visibility, and frictionless OpenTelemetry trace ingestion alongside any native agent

16%

AIOps, Anomaly Detection & Root Cause

Quality of automated anomaly detection and alert noise reduction, causal versus correlative root-cause analysis, forecasting and capacity signals, and emerging agentic remediation — judged on accuracy during a real incident, not on the marketing name of the AI engine

12%

OpenTelemetry & Openness

Depth of native OTel support (traces, metrics, logs) versus a proprietary agent; whether collection is genuinely vendor-neutral or quietly locks you in; query-language portability; export and data-egress freedom; and how much re-instrumentation a future migration would actually require

Scale, Reliability & Operability

Proven performance at your peak event and series volumes, multi-region availability and platform SLA, data-retention options, RBAC and SSO, and — if self-hosted — the operational burden of running and upgrading the backend at high cardinality

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Quick Facts

www.alibabacloud.com/product/arms Pricing page

CategoryObservability & Monitoring

SubcategoryAPM & Distributed Tracing

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