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Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management
What it is
Tencent Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) monitors application performance with metrics, traces, and logs, and supports distributed analysis and troubleshooting. It can monitor applications in real time using probes without code modifications. Traces link request paths across microservices and can include parameters, transaction data, errors, exceptions, method stacks, and instance environment information. APM discovers dependencies and displays application topologies to help analyze bottlenecks. It groups performance and exception metrics by dimensions such as API, exception, and database call to identify slow APIs, SQL statements, and recurring exceptions. Named database support includes MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and Redis. APM supports OpenTelemetry and works with SkyWalking and Jaeger tracing protocols through reporting-configuration changes. Traces can be associated with Cloud Log Service logs, while Cloud Monitor dashboards and CKafka trace delivery are also supported with configuration and permissions. Applications outside Tencent Cloud can connect if network access is available, through a public endpoint or private connectivity such as Direct Connect to Tencent Cloud VPC. New users receive a 15-day trial with a 100 million Span reporting limit and seven-day trace storage. Pay-as-you-go pricing is $0.02 a month, billed hourly, per million Spans reported; trace retention costs 0.012 USD per million Spans per day, with one million Spans per day free for reporting and retention.
For and against
For
- Monitors with metrics, traces, and logs.
- Probes work without code modifications.
- Supports OpenTelemetry, SkyWalking, and Jaeger protocols.
- Discovers application dependencies and topologies.
- One million Spans per day free for reporting and retention.
Against
- New-user trial lasts 15 days.
- Trial limits reporting to 100 million Spans.
- Trial trace storage lasts seven days.
- Trace retention has a separate listed charge.
The verdict
Tencent Cloud APM combines distributed traces with metrics, logs, and topology views for application troubleshooting. Review the trial limits and hourly usage-based charges, including separate trace-retention pricing, when considering it.
Who it suits
APM suits teams that need to follow requests across microservices and inspect application performance, errors, and dependencies. It can also serve applications outside Tencent Cloud when network access to APM is available.
Plans and prices
Developer Experience Package
3 days trace storage · 3,600 Agent*Hours
Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.tencent.com
Developer Standard Package
3 days trace storage · 28,800 Agent*Hours
Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.tencent.com
Enterprise Basic Package
3 days trace storage · 273,600 Agent*Hours
Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.tencent.com
Enterprise Professional Package
3 days trace storage · 1,080,000 Agent*Hours
Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.tencent.com
Flagship Package
3 days trace storage · 3,600,000 Agent*Hours
Read 20 Sep 2026 · cloud.tencent.com
15-day trial
100 million Span reports · 7-day trace storage · topology discovery · call tracing
Read 15 Oct 2026 · cloud.tencent.com
Developer - Experience Edition
3,600 Agent*Hours · 3-day trace storage · 10% sampling
Read 15 Oct 2026 · intl.cloud.tencent.com
Developer - Standard Edition
28,800 Agent*Hours · 3-day trace storage · 10% sampling
Read 15 Oct 2026 · intl.cloud.tencent.com
Enterprise - Basic Edition
273,600 Agent*Hours · 3-day trace storage · 10% sampling
Read 15 Oct 2026 · intl.cloud.tencent.com
On the record
- Access control
- CAM policies include predefined full-access and read-only roles plus resource-level policies scoped to individual business systems.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Analysis
- APM aggregates performance and exception metrics by dimensions such as API, exception, and database call to identify slow APIs, SQL statements, and frequent exceptions.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- API
- Tencent Cloud lists APM APIs for managing business systems and applications and querying topology, metrics, and traces.cloud.tencent.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- API tooling
- Tencent Cloud API Explorer provides online invocation, signature verification, interface search and generated SDK examples for APM APIs.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Approximate percentiles
- APM percentile calculations use a linear-distribution estimate, so P99 can exceed the exact maximum when samples are small.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Automatic topology
- The service discovers upstream and downstream dependencies and draws application-level dependency topologies.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud integrations
- APM can associate request traces with Cloud Log Service logs and display Cloud Monitor dashboards; trace delivery to CKafka is also supported with configuration and permissions.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Company
- Tencent says it was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.tencent.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Company founding
- LinkedIn lists Tencent Cloud as founded in 2013.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists Tencent Cloud headquarters in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Tencent Cloud as having more than 10,001 employees.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Database integrations
- The product page names MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, and Redis as databases APM can monitor.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 7 Oct 2026
- Database monitoring
- The product page lists MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB and Redis database-call monitoring.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Distributed tracing
- APM builds end-to-end request paths across microservices and records request, transaction, error, stack and instance details.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation and support
- Tencent provides a quick-start guide, language access guides, API documentation, FAQs, sales contact and ticket support.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Free usage
- New users receive a 15-day trial capped at 100 million reported Spans with seven days of trace retention.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Global infrastructure
- Tencent says that as of October 2025 its cloud operated 64 availability zones across 22 global regions and 3,200 CDN acceleration nodes.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hybrid-cloud access
- Applications in other clouds or offline data centers can report through public endpoints or Tencent Cloud VPC private connectivity.intl.cloud.tencent.com · read 15 Oct 2026
