Defining monitoring and management processes
This section of the book is all about BaseOps, and we will be looking at the Cloud Adoption Framework offered by the major cloud providers and hyperscalers—Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. These frameworks share a lot of basic principles. We can identify five domains in the frameworks:
- Governance
- Cost management
- Security
- Automation
- Monitoring
In the previous chapters, we covered governance, service design, policies, implementing landing zones in different clouds, resilience, and performance. Lastly, we learned how we can automate the deployment and management of our environments. We now have one final thing to discuss in terms of BaseOps, and that's monitoring.
Monitoring is crucial in the professional management of IT systems. It doesn't make sense to monitor everything in your environment, but that's what a lot of companies still do: they simply turn monitoring on and then...
