Edition Differences

APM provides probe and mesh products. Probe products include the basic, professional, enterprise, and platinum editions while mesh products include the basic and professional editions.

The professional, enterprise, and platinum editions of probe products support connection to APM through Java.
The professional edition of mesh products supports connection to APM through Istio (without language constraints).

The following table lists the functions supported by different editions of probe products.

Edition	Basic	Professional	Enterprise	Platinum
Function description	50 times; one hour each time. If you use APM for more than one hour each time, APM automatically stops data collection and you can only query historical data on the page. You need to manually apply to continue using the free edition or switch to the professional, enterprise, or platinum edition. If you use APM 50 times, you need to switch to the professional, enterprise, or platinum edition.	Open	Open	Open
Data storage duration	7 days	7 days	30 days	90 days
Application topology	√	√	√	√
Tracing	√	√	√	√
Transaction analysis	√	√	√	√
Slow SQL analysis	√	√	√	√
JVM analysis	√	x	√	√
AI capabilities	√	x	√	√
Method tracing	√	x	√	√
Expert support	x	x	24-hour online support	24-hour online support One person-day of onsite support in China each quarter
Note: √ indicates supported, and x indicates not supported.

The following table lists the functions supported by different editions of mesh products.

Edition	Basic	Professional
Function description	50 times; one hour each time. If you use APM for more than one hour each time, APM automatically stops data collection and you can only query historical data on the page. You need to manually apply to continue using the free edition or switch to the professional edition. If you use APM 50 times, you need to switch to the professional edition.	Open
Data storage duration	7 days	7 days
Application topology	√	√
Tracing	√	√
Note: √ indicates supported, and x indicates not supported.