The invention relates to an eddy current array detection apparatus based on compressed sensing and a detection method thereof, and an eddy current array probe. The eddy current array detection apparatus comprises an excitation signal generator, a power amplifier, the eddy current array probe, a signal acquisition module, a FPGA controller and a PC host computer. The eddy current array probe is composed of eddy current probe units, and each eddy current probe unit is composed of a probe shell, a tip, a bottom cover, mounting nuts, excitation coils, coil formers, an iron core, a TMR magnetic sensor and a printed circuit board. According to the invention, in virtue of the characteristic of sparsity of array signals, the precision of signal reconstruction is guaranteed and signal sampling frequency is greatly reduced, so requirements on hardware modules like sampling circuits are lowered, the amount of sample data is reduced, hardware burden in data acquisition, transmission and storage is mitigated, and the service life of equipment is prolonged; and for portable instruments powered by limited energy and equipped with array probes, energy consumption for sampling and calculating can be greatly saved, and the service life of the portable instruments can be substantially prolonged.