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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.

Related Terms

Cloud Migration
The process of moving applications, data, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud computing environments.
Edge Computing
A distributed computing paradigm that processes data near the source of generation rather than in a centralized cloud data center.
SaaS (Software as a Service)
A cloud delivery model where software applications are hosted and managed by a provider and accessed by users over the internet.
Cloud Storage Tiers
Different storage classes offered by cloud providers, optimized for varying access patterns from frequent to archival use.
Cloud-Native
An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.
Serverless Computing
A cloud execution model where the provider manages servers and dynamically allocates resources, charging only for actual usage.
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