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Cloud monitoring and management

Cloud monitoring and management

- Monitoring as with security is one of the most important parts of cloud ops in my opinion. The process of observing systems as it works leads to a deeper understanding about how it operates and behaves under different levels of stress. Also, the management aspect means that we're understanding how to be more proactive. Monitoring and measurement practice provides you with a proven and proactive way to monitor the performance of various workloads and components. By gathering these metrics, you can understand how workloads that exist on different platforms behave on different levels of use and how they respond to increasing and decreasing loads. Monitoring and measurement needs to provide end-to-end visibility for all systems holistically. Keep in mind that private, public, and hybrid clouds are part of the infrastructure supporting critical workloads, and these workloads must interact with traditional on-premise systems as well. This means that it becomes the mechanism that sees all…

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