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A different approach for the cloud to keep cost in control
Cloud services need to be thoroughly monitored in order to diagnose and identify potential issues faster and to streamline data & cost efficiency. In a production environment, it's important to be able to track the way in which users use resources, trace utilisation, and generally monitor health and performance. Out of the box solutions with some help of various scripts from cloud providers, provide limited access to observability data in-context. Deep hooks to logging and monitoring services for all resource irrespective of where they are hosted is needed in order to take control of a cloud environment.
Why is managing multiple cloud subscriptions a challenge?
While cloud operators provide many solutions out of the box for monitoring resources on a resource group level, the task of monitoring and alerting becomes daunting on subscription level, especially when we work multiple subscriptions and hybrid workloads. Many customers have already made large investments in on-prem tooling and moreless expecting these tools to be cloud ready & cloud enabled also.
Below are some common challenges that most of the cloud administrators would face with monitoring the cloud:
No Subscription Level Monitoring
In a typical enterprise, there would be multiple cloud subscriptions managed across various tenants. Each tenant would have multiple subscriptions for respective environments. Out of the box, there is no single place to manage and monitor all the subscriptions of multiple tenants. When there are multiple resources interacting with other resources in another tenant, it is not possible to group and manage all resources in a single place.
No Consolidated Dashboard
Engineering organisations have traditionally relied on separate systems to monitor their frontend, backend application code, logs, and underlying IT infrastructure. This reliance on point-solution tools makes it more difficult to correlate between systems and pinpoint the source of any user-facing issues. The challenge is increasing when cloud infrastructure is combined with on-prem infrastructure.
No Actionable insights
The data that you track, analyse, and visualise is most useful when it is providing actionable insights and acting is easier when your resources are just a click away. When you can detect an anomaly in a dashboard or when an automated alert is fired, there should be no need to log into another portal or console to start troubleshooting and remediating. Current solutions from cloud providers while being capable of providing information but lack the capabilities of providing actionable insights.
How can monitoring and alerting of cloud be simplified?
Being able to collect logs from the cloud and on-premises resources and analyze them with cloud-based log management tool you can avoid switching between multiple consoles and correlate the performance of all your resources from a single console.
Getting complete visibility into the performance of your platform, identifying critical application and infrastructure problems proactively by easily correlating performance issues with errors and failures should be an overarching goal. To get the “value” of what you pay, from your cloud provider the below should be the focus area: -
Provision Single-pane and End to End Performance monitoring
Focus on gaining overall visibility into the different types of services in a single glance. This will reduce the efforts and resistance to improve the performance of your cloud resources with insights on subscription-level events, operational data, and status of all operations that occurred in your cloud environment. Aim to analyse the health of your entire cloud and on-prem infrastructure in a single view by gaining visibility into resources, VMs, containers and orchestration, logs, events, and more. Monitor your cloud services, applications, and dynamic infrastructure from one console.
Ensure optimal performance of your Azure services
Make efforts or take help from experts to access to best practice checks to optimise costs, increase the performance, and reliability of all your services from time to time. The recommendations should be grouped based on different priority levels and frequency of audit should be chosen to keep the platform tuned. This can result in savings of not just cost, but efforts, time, downtime, and the impact on the environment.
Make a mission to stay ahead of performance issues with investments in alerting and forecasting
The ability to predict trends from monitoring performance metrics based on historical observations for services like Virtual Machines (VM), Sites, Databases, and App Service Plans using machine learning and traditional time series forecasting models like exponential smoothing can give you an edge over your competition. Being notified on right channels at the right time can safeguard your company from loss of resources, business opportunities and reputation.
How can CloudXcellence help?
CloudXcellence provides you grip on your cloud. CloudXcellence gathers and aggregates data into a shared data platform from several sources where it is used for analysis, predictions, visualisation, and pro-active alerting. It offers a seamless experience on top of multi-source data, giving you in-depth views into all your tracked resources. Using CloudXcellence, users can manage and monitor multiple subscriptions across tenants in a single place and it offers many advantages over traditional cloud provider out of box solutions. Such as:
- Simple and Easy to Use
- Dashboards for better analysis of the Azure resources & streamline data efficiency
- Actionable Insights to streamline Cost and performance efficiency
- Dynamic alerting & adjustments based on sliding windows
- Low-cost monitoring alternative
We’ve applied our experience of years of operating at scale to build default views that surface what is important. Over the years we have helped many customers to achieve the best value of their data estate and cloud investments. At CloudXcellence we expertise in delivering new methods of working efficiency and we can help you achieve success for equitable cloud experiences.