By IT Brew Staff
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Definition:
Cloud monitoring is essential if an organization wants to optimize and protect its clouds. Monitoring tools give IT teams insight into everything from user behavior to the health of virtual machines and databases, and can cover every part of an organization’s cloud stack, from applications and websites to cloud storage and servers. It’s particularly critical for larger organizations with hybrid and multi-cloud environments, which can quickly become complex and difficult to monitor in granular detail.
IT teams seeking to stand up effective cloud monitoring must consider several factors, including the best monitoring tools for their particular cloud distribution, the best performance metrics to watch, and ultimate monitoring goals (i.e., an improved cybersecurity posture, or a reduction in unnecessary cloud consumption). Monitoring best practices include establishing performance baselines, predicting cloud demand, identifying suspicious activity, and, ultimately, having comprehensive insight into system health.
The potential benefits of cloud monitoring are vast, starting with cost savings from optimizing applications and services. Monitoring provides the data that allows IT teams to effectively scale their clouds, proactively remove unused or dangerous apps and services, and secure customer data against internal and external threats. An optimized cloud also means happier end users, which means fewer complaints (and support tickets!) for IT.
