- Monitoring as with security is one
of the most important parts of cloud apps in my opinion.
The process of observing the systems as it works
leads to much learning 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 the proven and proactive way to monitor the performance
of various workloads and components.
By gathering these metrics you can understand
how the workloads existing on different platforms
behave at different levels of use and how it responds
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 work loads and those workloads must interact
with traditional on-premise systems as well.
This means that it becomes the mechanism that sees all
in terms of workloads, services, data,
security, governance, et cetera.
This means leveraging a single pane of glass
to see how the systems are operating holistically.
Moreover, as we begin to leverage hybrid clouds
as private and public cloud platform options,
the ability to move workloads between them effectively
becomes a key value for leveraging hybrid cloud technology.
Thus, we need to be able to monitor workloads no matter
if they reside on public or private clouds,
even if they are distributed between them.
Core to all of this is to provide the holistic collection
of data that determines both the operational health
of all systems.
Moving to hybrid clouds from traditional on-premise systems
does not mean giving up control of all operations.
Indeed, you should leverage this opportunity to expand upon
your ability to monitor and control all IT resources.
Gathering operational data should span all systems
else the approaches and technology won't have much value.
The use of hybrid clouds means that our platforms
and architectures will become more complex and distributed.
The value of these platform changes,
they're not something that's readily apparent
and the data must be gathered consistently
as to the true cost advantage is
of cloud-based workload migration.
The call to action is to think beyond simple operations.
While traditional operations and performance management
have been reactive and typically reactive
without having the visibility they need.
The new normal is to be proactive and have the advantage
of seeing all of the data from all of the systems
and being able to place the data in context,
so spotting or correcting issues is automated
and based on near perfect data.
Monitoring and management are the way
the cloud success is determined.
This considering that it's how users think about
using cloud-based systems longer term.
Thus, this needs to be a core focus
and is foundational to cloud computing success.