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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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Auto Scaling
Automatically adjusting the number of computing resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimize costs.
Multi-Cloud
A strategy of using services from multiple cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and leverage best-of-breed capabilities.
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
An isolated virtual network within a cloud provider where you can launch resources with full control over IP addressing, routing, and security.
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 Function
A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without requiring server management or infrastructure provisioning.
Cloud Storage Tiers
Different storage classes offered by cloud providers, optimized for varying access patterns from frequent to archival use.
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