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Kevin Asutton
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Cloud Monitoring – Visibility Across a Distributed World

As organizations migrate to the cloud, maintaining visibility becomes more complex. Enter Cloud Monitoring—your real-time command center for performance, uptime, and user experience.

🌐 Why Is Cloud Monitoring Critical?

Cloud environments are dynamic and constantly changing

Downtime means lost revenue and brand damage

Traditional monitoring tools can’t keep up with ephemeral infrastructure

🔍 What to Monitor:

Infrastructure health (CPU, memory, disk)

Application performance (APM)

End-user experience (synthetic monitoring)

Security anomalies and alerts

🛠️ Tools like Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, and Prometheus offer dashboards, alerts, and AI-driven analytics to stay proactive—not reactive.

📊 Visibility is power. Cloud monitoring helps you detect problems before users even notice.

Is your cloud infrastructure observable—or a black box?

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