Cloud Monitoring Services
Ensuring a Safe and Secure Cloud Environment
Complexities in traditional IT infrastructure pose severe challenges to organizations in catching up with fast-changing market trends. This is where Cloud Computing performs the role of a savior, addressing many business-critical tasks that require manual intervention, consume time and resources, and are expensive.
Eventually, there is a growing cloud adoption globally owing to its ability to handle heavy workloads and provide enhanced mobility. However, on the other side of the cloud services utilization are some critical challenges facing the IT industry, such as support from the service providers, security, storage, compliance, and others.
‘Cloud Monitoring’ has answers for these cloud-related challenges!
A Cloud Monitoring Strategy is divided between Infrastructure Management and Configuration Management and typically involves:
- Utilization of manual or automation techniques to monitor the performance of applications, servers, etc.,
- Assessment and evaluation of resource utilization, server response times, availability, and operating speeds to ensure possible issues are addressed well in advance.
The list is not exhaustive! The cloud monitoring strategy performs many other tasks to keep your cloud computing environment safe and secure.
Cloud Monitoring Tools
Amazon Cloudwatch
Without additional software, this tool helps monitor and track cloud resources and application operations running on the AWS cloud.
Microsoft Cloud Monitoring
Monitor and track workloads running on Microsoft Azure, and gain real-time insights on log files, security threats, and more. It doesn’t require any additional software and comes built-in with Azure.
AppDynamics
Adaptable to any system/software environment; Offers cloud-based network monitoring services; Gives you the current state of cloud apps even at the deep-root levels of business transactions and coding; Offers high control and visibility in crucial IaaS/PaaS platforms like Azure, AWS, among others.
BMC TrueSight Pulse
It is designed to track multi-cloud operational performance. This cloud monitoring tool helps you build an all-round cloud ops management solution. Tracking cloud costs and effective resource utilization are among other benefits.
New Relic
With abilities to manage complex and ever-changing cloud infrastructure, this tool provides insights on cloud apps and servers running in real time to help you scale. Operations are in line with usage irrespective of the operating platform.
Hyperic
Monitors apps running in physical, cloud, and virtual environments as well as middleware and networks; Gives an overview of infrastructure, monitors performance, logs, and modifications.
SolarWinds
Manages and tracks everything, including app performance, resource utilization, and hardware issues in a virtual environment in a single real-time dashboard; makes predictive recommendations to improve components’ performance.
ExoPrise
Deals specifically with SaaS apps such as Dropbox, Office365, etc., in offering security and optimization support; Ensures SLA for all SaaS and web apps; troubleshoots, detects outages, and fixes.
Retrace
Developer-oriented cloud management tool; helps developers with code-level app monitoring, app, server metrics, etc.
Aternity
End User Experience (EUE) monitoring tool compatible with virtual, desktop, and mobile platforms; assesses infrastructure management, end-user experience, and network assessments to ensure the adequate performance of the overall cloud ecosystem.
Redgate
Best suitable tool for Microsoft, SQL Server, and .NET users; helps detect improper database deployments, performs root cause diagnosis, and tracks overall server performance; tracks cloud environment’s performance deep to the database level.
Datadog
This app performance monitor offers complete visibility of modern apps in terms of observation, troubleshooting, and tracking their execution speeds; it easily integrates with hundreds of cloud and software environments; helps analyze and track logs through interactive dashboards.
Opsview
Easily monitor public and private clouds together through a single process on customizable dashboards and by advanced metrics; Also helps with SLA reporting.
Logic Monitor
This tool is known for its network monitoring abilities, actively tracking all network infrastructure components. It offers customizable screening solutions for business servers (small and large), apps, databases, cloud, networks, and virtual machines.
PagerDuty
This tool focuses on customer experience and possesses enterprise-level incident management and reporting abilities. It connects with various tracking systems and provides access to advanced analytics. Moreover, it performs advanced analysis and automates resolution activities.
Dynatrace
Gives a detailed insight into user experience aspects and business impact while managing cloud infrastructure and app performance. Powered by AI capabilities, it meets faster installation requirements and analyzes user behavior, contributing to conversion rates.
Stack Driver
This smart service monitoring tool for AWS and GCP actively performs assessment, logging, and diagnosis of apps. It consolidates metrics, alerts, traces, logs, and data from all cloud accounts into a single dashboard for easy monitoring and analysis.
Unigma
Management and monitoring tool that gets metrics from multiple cloud vendors; gives complete visibility of workloads and infrastructure; Helps you visualize cloud expenditure and recommend cost-saving options.
Zenoss
Monitors enterprise deployments across public cloud hosting platforms; possesses cloud tracking and analyzing capabilities of all resources; ensures uptime and the health of all cloud apps.
Cloud Monitoring Benefits
With these tools and resources, cloud monitoring offers a wide range of solutions for a safe and secure cloud environment.
Some of the Significant Benefits Include:
- Quick installation backed by infrastructure and configurations in place
- The host maintains dedicated tools, including hardware, relieving burden
- Scalability through the usage of the proper monitoring tools for changing cloud activity
- Cost savings for subscription-based solutions without having to bear initial infrastructure or maintenance costs, which are spread across multiple users
- Local infrastructure issues may not hurt the organizational servers and workstations maintained by the cloud
- Availability of a wide variety of tools compatible with multiple devices over the network
Cloud Monitoring Best Practices
Implementation of the right tools and resources can offer many benefits. But the way implementation is done matters a lot.
Here are some of the best cloud monitoring practices:
- Identifying key metrics and instances
- Effective data reporting through a single platform
- Track service usage and expenditure
- Monitor and enhance user experience through regular feedback
- Ensure rules and services go hand-in-hand for the effective utilization of resources
- Always store monitor data separately from related apps and services, and keep it accessible to related stakeholders
- It’s always important to test your tools’ performance to ensure they don’t fail when required
It’s time to add an effective ‘Cloud Based Monitoring’ system to your cloud environment.
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