What is cloud monitoring?

Cloud monitoring is the process of reviewing, monitoring and managing the operational workflow and processes within a cloud-based infrastructure environment. It is the use of manual or automated IT monitoring and management techniques to ensure that cloud infrastructure, applications, services and workflows perform optimally.

Why is cloud monitoring essential?

In a highly scalable and dynamic environment, cloud monitoring ensures infrastructure/solution/service availability. Cloud monitoring data also helps in evaluating the performance of the entire infrastructure on a modular level. Metrics such as container uptime, utilization, and response rate can help in evaluating and troubleshooting customer/user experience.

How does cloud monitoring work?

Cloud monitoring is primarily part of the operational processes, and it is generally implemented through automated monitoring software that provides central access and control over cloud infrastructure like instances, containers, databases, networks, etc. Cloud administrators can review the operational status and health of any cloud-based device, component, or service.

What is a cloud monitoring tool?

A cloud monitoring tool is a piece of software that is deployed in or alongside your cloud environment that performs the monitoring function. The level of automation, visibility and administration overhead varies from tool to tool. Sometimes multiple cloud monitoring tools are needed in order to achieve the level of visibility desired by the organization.

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How It Works

Sysdig Monitor collects metrics about your environment from our eBPF based agent, Kubernetes, Prometheus, integrations, cloud services, and custom metrics. We then correlate and enrich those metrics so you can get maximum visibility to ensure application availability, performance, and fast problem resolution. With a prioritized list of issues, out-of-the-box dashboards, easy-to-use alerts, and simple integrations you can start quickly and scale simply to get more done.

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Sysdig Monitor is the cloud monitoring tool you need to gain visibility into the infrastructure, applications, and services that drive your business. Get results quickly with out of the box Kubernetes infrastructure visualizations, cloud integrations, dashboards, and alerts.