Part of 1 of a 3 part series outlining the essential components for effective cloud monitoring. This portion covers cost monitoring and presents 3 key issues that users need to address to maximize their ROI.
Cloud elasticity delivers significant increases in availability and scalability with enormous cost reductions relative to comparably functional data centers. Harnessing this strength and optimizing your cloud usage means monitoring and understanding what is occurring within your deployment – for cloud users, there is no such thing as benign neglect.
Just as data center users require solutions to assist in optimizing and controlling usage beyond the application layer, so to do public cloud users.
In fact, given the complexity and evolving innovation of cloud architecture, tools are even more critical for cloud users to avoid cost sprawl, security vulnerabilities, and service deterioration.