Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring is the process of continuously observing, analyzing, and managing the operational health, performance, and security of cloud-based applications, services, and infrastructure. It involves collecting metrics, logs, and traces from various cloud resources to provide insights into…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2008
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Cloud Monitoring was created to address the inherent complexities, scale, and ephemeral nature of cloud environments. Traditional monitoring tools designed for static, on-premise infrastructure struggled with dynamic resource provisioning/de-provisioning, distributed microservices architectures, serverless functions, and the sheer volume of metrics, logs, and traces generated in the cloud. It provides integrated visibility across diverse cloud services, enabling proactive management and cost optimization in a way its predecessors could not.
- Platforms
- Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, etc.), Hybrid Cloud environments, Private Cloud environments
Related technologies
Notable users
- Capital One
- Spotify
- Siemens
- Airbnb
- Countless enterprises and startups leveraging cloud platforms
- Netflix
- Adobe