What is Cloud Monitoring?

How does cloud monitoring work?

Ideally, cloud monitoring works in real time alongside its on-premises and hybrid counterparts. This helps improve visibility across the entire environment, including storage, networks, and apps. Key capabilities of cloud monitoring tools include tracking the consumption and traffic of cloud-hosted resources, unifying large volumes of data across distributed locations, identifying anomalies and their root causes, and predicting potential risks or production outages.

How do I benefit from cloud monitoring?

• Holistic: Cloud monitoring goes beyond basic infrastructure health. It optimises application performance all the way down to transaction and code-level metrics.
• Scalable: Cloud-monitoring tools should grow with your infrastructure. The on-demand provisioning of licenses enables you to add new workstations or servers on a self-serve basis. It is not necessary to engineer for peak loads.
• Cost-effective: Cloud monitoring is generally subscription-based, which means you pay only for the systems you want to monitor. You should be up and running within minutes with no upfront costs or infrastructural changes to your network.
• Proactive: Gone are the days of manual checks. Automated monitoring finds patterns in cloud health to predict vulnerabilities before they arise. Faster and more data-driven reporting leads to faster resolution. And by discovering the root cause of these issues, you can better plan for the future.
• Remote: Cloud monitoring takes a 360-degree snapshot of your environment. It is independent of your own systems, whether or not it is on the corporate network. Most solutions also offer web-based dashboards you can view from any device.
• Secure: The security and privacy of all customer data should be a solution's number one priority. With that taken care of, you can focus on creating superior customer experiences.

What are cloud monitoring tools?

The cloud has many moving parts. A variety of automated tools track different areas of performance. Some tools are built into cloud services. Others are offered by third-party platforms. Either way, the best cloud-monitoring solutions include custom metrics. You should be able to monitor specific areas of the cloud stack as well as the environment as a whole.