Monitoring
Cloud monitoring is a method of reviewing, observing, and managing the operational workflow in a cloud-based IT infrastructure. Manual or automated management techniques confirm the availability and performance of websites, servers, applications, and other cloud infrastructure. This continuous evaluation of resource levels, server response times, and speed predicts possible vulnerability to future issues before they arise.
Types of cloud monitoring
The cloud has numerous moving components, and for top performance, it’s critical to safeguard that everything comes together seamlessly. This need has led to a variety of monitoring techniques to fit the type of outcome that a user wants. The main types of cloud monitoring are:
Database monitoring
Because most cloud applications rely on databases, this technique reviews processes, queries, availability, and consumption of cloud database resources. This technique can also track queries and data integrity, monitoring connections to show real-time usage data. For security purposes, access requests can be tracked as well. For example, an uptime detector can alert if there’s database instability and can help improve resolution response time from the precise moment that a database goes down.
Website monitoring
A website is a set of files that is stored locally, which, in turn, sends those files to other computers over a network. This monitoring technique tracks processes, traffic, availability, and resource utilization of cloud-hosted sites.
Virtual network monitoring
This monitoring type creates software versions of network technology such as firewalls, routers, and load balancers. Because they’re designed with software, these integrated tools can give you a wealth of data about their operation. If one virtual router is endlessly overcome with traffic, for example, the network adjusts to compensate. Therefore, instead of swapping hardware, virtualization infrastructure quickly adjusts to optimize the flow of data.
Cloud storage monitoring
This technique tracks multiple analytics simultaneously, monitoring storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. This technique is often used to host infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. For these applications, you can configure monitoring to track performance metrics, processes, users, databases, and available storage. It provides data to help you focus on useful features or to fix bugs that disrupt functionality.
Virtual machine monitoring
This technique is a simulation of a computer within a computer; that is, virtualization infrastructure and virtual machines. It’s usually scaled out in IaaS as a virtual server that hosts several virtual desktops. A monitoring application can track the users, traffic, and status of each machine. You get the benefits of traditional IT infrastructure monitoring with the added benefit of cloud monitoring solutions.
