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7 Requirements for Monitoring Cloud Apps and Infrastructure

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The ability to capture the raw transaction data is particularly important in cloud deployments to quickly identify bottlenecks and understand the relationships between different components in cloud-native systems.

1. The ability to capture and query events and traces in addition to aggregate data

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The Data Trifecta

Metrics

Events Traces

Metrics

Events

Traces

A statistical measurement of associated events over a period of time.

The record of a single event at a particular time.

A detailed snapshot of function calls, database calls, and external calls associated with a single transaction in your application.

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2. The ability to monitor and visualize the connections among your sites, apps, and infrastructure

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When it comes to cloud monitoring, it’s important that your transaction traces connect load balancers, queues, serverless architectures, apps, microservices, and infrastructure together.

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You need the ability to monitor a wide variety of cloud provider integrations in one place (you don’t want to have to download and install different plugins for each cloud provider service).

3. Native cloud integrations for leading cloud providers

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Simple, Flexible and Transparent pricing for monitoring cloud deployments.

4. Cloud-aware pricing

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t2.microOS / APP / NR

m3.mediumOS / APP / NR

EC2

m3.medium > t2.micro price

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5. The ability to scale for your biggest day

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In the cloud, you don’t have time to grow your monitoring solution to cope with increased scale.

Scale to Your Big

Days

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6. Multi-tenant SaaS architecture

A true SaaS solution helps you avoid the worry, hassle, and expenseof maintaining, updating, and managing dedicated infrastructure just to monitor your apps.

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7. A solution prepared for the future

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Leverage artificial intelligence to proactively discover when things may be going wrong in your websites and apps.

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