Chapter 9: Defining and Using Monitoring and Management Tools
We're getting to the last section on basic operations, or BaseOps, in multi-cloud environments. This chapter is about monitoring your multi-cloud environment. How do we keep track of the health of our cloud resources? We will be using the native monitoring tools of different cloud providers, but we'll also explore some tools that provide a single-pane-of-glass view—one overall dashboard where we have a unified view of our entire environment.
In this chapter, we will first define the monitoring and management processes, before we take a look at the different tools of Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. We will also learn about what tools we can use to manage our environments. We will get a deeper understanding of what we should monitor in the seven layers of the Open System Interconnections (OSI) model and how we can consolidate monitoring data so that it becomes relevant to the business. Lastly, we...
