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What is Cloud Monitoring?

Services that collect, analyze, and alert on metrics, logs, and traces from cloud infrastructure and applications.

Cloud monitoring provides visibility into the health and performance of cloud resources. AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Google Cloud Monitoring collect metrics (CPU, memory, request counts), aggregate logs, and provide alerting and dashboards. Key capabilities include custom metrics, anomaly detection, composite alarms, automated remediation actions, and integration with incident management tools. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) adds distributed tracing to follow requests across microservices. Effective monitoring follows the RED method (Rate, Errors, Duration) for services and the USE method (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) for resources.

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Azure
Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services for building, deploying, and managing applications.
CDK (Cloud Development Kit)
A software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages instead of YAML or JSON templates.
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
A framework for managing digital identities and controlling who can access which cloud resources and services.
Object Storage
A storage architecture that manages data as objects with metadata and unique identifiers, ideal for unstructured data at scale.
SLA (Service Level Agreement)
A formal agreement between a service provider and customer defining guaranteed levels of service availability and performance.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
A cloud service model providing virtualized computing resources like servers, storage, and networking over the internet.
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