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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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