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Cloud monitoring helps you manage your cloud-based applications and services. Learn more about it and three Microsoft tools that can help.<\/h2>\n
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With the cloud firmly enmeshed in all our lives, it\u2019s important to understand how to keep your cloud-based applications and services safe and secure for your customers, team members, and organization as a whole. To do that, you need to implement cloud monitoring, a critical practice for maintaining the health, performance and security of your cloud-based IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n

This practice will help your organization maintain smooth operations, detect issues early on, and efficiently allocate resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll provide more information about what cloud monitoring<\/a> is, who needs to implement it, and what types of Microsoft 365 tools can help you keep up with the practice.<\/p>\n

What Is Cloud Monitoring?<\/h2>\n

As mentioned above, cloud monitoring is the practice of maintaining your cloud-based IT infrastructure. The practice is a method of reviewing, observing and managing the overall operational workflow in a cloud-based environment.<\/p>\n

Cloud monitoring techniques help your organization keep track of the performance of websites, servers, applications, and other cloud infrastructure. This way, you know when an application or service is up and running and can respond in real-time the moment a site runs into difficulties to reduce or even prevent downtime as needed. It also helps you track usage so you know both when you need more IT professionals to help with a particular tool and when another tool might need fewer resources.<\/p>\n

Today, every organization needs cloud monitoring, especially as teams become increasingly distributed. IT administrators must have constant visibility into how their digital assets perform. Luckily, cloud monitoring can be done manually, with automated tools, or using a combination of the two methods to maintain a reliable and efficient cloud environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft Tools for Cloud Monitoring<\/h2>\n

Microsoft 365 provides a few tools that can help you with your cloud monitoring practice. There are several routes you can take, from taking over the entire task to supplementing the work you\u2019re already doing. We\u2019ll review three types.<\/p>\n

The Comprehensive Tool: Azure Monitor<\/h3>\n

Azure Monitor<\/a> is a comprehensive cloud monitoring solution from Microsoft, meant to take most of the monitoring tasks off your plate. The tool provides you with the ability to collect, analyze and respond to monitoring data from both your cloud and on-premises environments.<\/p>\n

The tool also provides reporting and analytics to help you learn more about how your applications and services perform. It can also identify the issues that affect your cloud environment and the resources they rely on.<\/p>\n

Azure Monitor does all of this by collecting and aggregating data from your entire cloud system, including:<\/strong><\/p>\n