Cloud computing changes everything. The flexibility, scale, services, and pay-as-you-go pricing options provided by modern cloud platforms have completely changed how companies architect their applications as well as how they deploy the corresponding infrastructure. To keep up with this and effectively monitor cloud-based apps and dynamic infrastructure, monitoring platforms need to change as well. Here are the 7 requirements for monitoring cloud apps and infrastructure. Learn more here: https://newrelic.com/resource/cloud-monitoring-platform-requirements

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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.micro
OS / APP / NR
m3.medium
OS / 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 expense
of 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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