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What is Server-side Monitoring?

Server-side Monitoring provides end-to-end backend monitoring capabilities, covering infrastructure resource performance, service/code-layer observability, and application runtime health.

Introduction to Server-side Monitoring

The Server-side Monitoring module of APMPlus is an end-to-end backend monitoring service for server-side applications. It provides unified monitoring from infrastructure resource performance to service and code layers and to the runtime health of online applications.

Server-side Monitoring adopts a non-intrusive instrumentation solution and requires only simple configuration on the server to complete integration.

Advantages

Low integration cost with non-intrusive SDKs

It provides non-intrusive integration for common Java and Python frameworks to reduce costs.

SDK and agent resource consumption, as indicated by performance testing, is lower than that of open-source alternatives.

Agents support multiple deployment and installation methods, including Yum and apt-get, which further improves integration efficiency.

‌Advanced anomaly tracing and analysis

Extensive anomaly tracing and analysis capabilities are available, including but not limited to stack tracing, log capture, scheduling analysis, tombstone analysis, and user interaction replay.

Flexible, cost-saving sampling methods

You can use multiple sampling configurations (module-specific or user-based sampling configurations) to reduce event volume.

Custom error reporting

In addition to collecting common anomalies, custom errors can be reported, enabling a more comprehensive analysis of application anomalies.

Custom instrumentation support

Multiple custom instrumentation capabilities are provided to support flexible and in-depth event tracking, as well as lightweight, simple front-end custom instrumentation.

Technical optimization support

The expert team with extensive experience in optimizing applications with hundreds of millions of users are ready to deliver technical solutions that optimize your application quality and performance with platform-provided capabilities.

Overview of monitoring capabilities

Currently, Server-side Monitoring provides the following monitoring capabilities.

Category	Feature	Description
Dashboards	Host performance	Preset host performance dashboard. It displays trend charts for host machine load, CPU usage, and memory usage.
		Disks	Preset disk performance dashboard. It displays trend charts for iowait, IO latency, read/write throughput, and read/write QPS.
		Platform self-monitoring	Preset platform self-monitoring dashboard. It displays trend charts for backend data receiving services and server agents.
		Custom dashboard	You can configure custom dashboards.
Basic monitoring	Host monitoring	Displays a list of hosts and their operational status, CPU utilization, IO, and load information.
		Docker monitoring	Displays a list of containers and their details, such as status, host name, image, CPU utilization, memory usage rate, startup time, and creation time.
		Process monitoring	Displays a list of processes and their details such as startup user, host name, CPU utilization, memory usage rate, creation time, and end time.
Logs	Log queries	Provides log consumption capabilities and supports log clustering and log search.
Service Overview	Service list	Displays the complete list of services with their details including service type, operational status, error rate, QPS, latency, CPU utilization, memory usage, and last monitored time.
		Service topology	Displays a global service topology map that reflects the cross-service call relationships. It enables rapid analysis of overall service architecture and upstream/downstream call dependencies and provides real-time monitoring of call success rates between services to help promptly identify faulty services.
		Service integration	Provides instructions on integration using various programming languages. You can refer to the integration instructions to integrate monitoring capabilities.
Middleware monitoring	Middleware overview	Aggregates statistics of service access to middleware components, providing unified observability from the middleware perspective to streamline troubleshooting for middleware operators.
Trace analysis	Trace analysis	Enables real-time retrieval of span information (such as service calls) with multi-dimensional filtering and sorting for rapid error/slow query diagnosis. You can click a TraceID to view the complete request path. It is used to locate and troubleshoot single-point issues.
Trace analysis		Single trace query	Provides single-point tracing and diagnosis capabilities. You can query the complete call trace of a single request by specifying its TraceID. Connecting to a log repository allows you to link all logs throughout the entire trace. You can use it to quickly locate and troubleshoot single-point issues.
Performance analysis	Analysis and query	Displays data reported by profile tasks of all services.
Performance analysis		Task management	It is used to add and manage profile tasks, as well as view the reported data from those profile tasks.
Global analysis	Custom Metrics	Displays reported custom metrics and their custom dimensions. You can search for and filter metrics and easily switch to the visual query interface.
Global analysis		Visual query	Visualizes the time trends for a given metric in a chart. It reflects metric changes over time.
Watchdog	Automatic anomaly detection	Automatically detects possible basic component and service anomalies. System risks are be detected without your intervention to help you eliminate hidden dangers at the earliest opportunities and quickly locate and troubleshoot issues.
Watchdog		Event center	Displays watchdog events. You can configure alert notification for events.
Error tracing	Error analysis	Collects service anomlies and errors and aggregates and classifies them to help you analyze errors.
Alert management	Alert tasks	Adds and manages alert tasks. Alert tasks detect metric values or watchdog events, and when conditions are met, send alert notifications to O&M personnel so that they handle issues promptly. These tasks help O&M personnel quickly locate and troubleshoot issues.
Alert management		Alert history	Records historical alerts.
Platform setting	Receiver group management	Manages alert receiver groups.
Platform setting		Parameter configuration	Allows you to adjust various platform parameter configurations.

Integration workflow

You can refer to the following integration workflow diagram to preliminarily understand how to integrate Server-side Monitoring. For detailed integration steps, see Integrating Server-side Monitoring.

API

Server-side Monitoring also provides OpenAPI interfaces for capabilities such as alert management, alert group management, and metric queries. For details, see API overview.

Last updated: 2026.10.13 17:20:01