Exploring monitoring and management tools
In this section, we will first study the native monitoring that Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform have to offer. After that, we will take a brief look at some other popular end-to-end monitoring systems that are on the market and are more cross-cloud.
Before we dive into the tools, we should get a high-level understanding of how monitoring works. Typically, these tools work with agents that collect data on the health and performance of resources. This is often raw data that is compiled into a more comprehensible format so it can be analyzed. From there, it gets visualized, for instance, in graphical presentations in dashboards that can be viewed from a console.
Monitoring can also lead to triggers: a system can suffer from malfunctions or other issues. In that case, the monitoring service will send out an alert that triggers a response. That response can be either to start a scaling process if systems run out of resources such as...
